Antidumping rules, 'green jobs' and Dow Corning
President Obama claims to support America's exporting and so-called "green jobs" industries, but he also likes rules that restrict the importation of critical inputs to those industries. Austin Bragg and I produced a short video detailing how antidumping duties serve to nudge American manufacturers offshore or out of business. The examples we cite are American manufactured products that fall squarely into the category of "green," including Kentucky manufacturer Dow Corning.
Facebook it. Tweet it. It's worth remembering that free trade is just another aspect of liberty and a strong civil society.