By Bernie Becker
07/30/12
07/30/12
The Commerce Department, in a preliminary Monday decision, announced that it was setting tariffs as high as 82 percent on large washing machines made in South Korea and Mexico.
 By Carolyn Shapiro The Virginian-Pilot July 30, 2012 VIRGINIA BEACH At a small table surrounded by a crowd at the Ynot Wednesdays? Farmers Market, Shannon Rice offered samples of her goat cheese infused with herbs or sun-dried tomatoes. 
Tower sections for wind turbines made in China were unloaded at Long Beach, Calif., in 2010. The government said it increased the duties because China sold the towers at less than fair value. | Photo Credit: Tim Rue/Bloomberg News
 By DIANE CARDWELL Published: July 27, 2012 Chinese manufacturers have been illegally selling steel towers for wind turbines below the cost of production and will have to pay duties of 20.85 to 72.69 percent on imports, the United States Commerce Department said Friday in a preliminary ruling in an antidumping case brought by four American tower manufacturers. 
 Grocery Manufacturers Association Long-time Obstructionist of Public Health In case you had any doubt that California's Prop 37 -- which would require labeling of food containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) -- is a significant threat to industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear. 
 Alan Uke 07/27/2012 Media attention recently homed in on the revelation that the United States Olympic Team's uniforms, designed by Ralph Lauren, were made in China. 
Top Ten Reasons to Buy USA Made Products "Buy American!" might sound like nothing more than a slogan advanced by American manufacturers to sell products made in the USA, but the truth is that there are many reasons to consider buying American-made clothing, American-made toys, and other US-manufactured goods. We've listed just a few of the benefits of buying American below: 
 The reason we can’t end poverty in America is not because the country isn’t rich enough to do that: it is rather because of the ignorance of those who would end poverty in America. Peter Edelman has an Op/Ed in the New York Times which shows this to horrific effect. And what’s really worrying is that Edelman is supposedly one of the experts on how we ought to reduce poverty. 
 Jul. 25, 2012 By Bob Fernandez Inquirer Staff Writer Though U.S. athletes will be wearing chic China-made Ralph Lauren duds during the Olympics' opening ceremony Friday, a 225-employee company in North Philadelphia is taking special pride that one team - the rowers - will be wearing made-in-the-U.S.A. racing unisuits and practice gear in London.  General Motors assembly workers Monique Watson (L) and Evetta Osborne install an electric battery on the underside of a 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Hamtramck, Michigan November 30, 2010. | Photo Credit: Reuters/Rebecca Cook  Seesmart Inc, a small California lighting company, used to make all of its LED products in China, but last year that started to change. 
 Brown is the Author of Legislation That Would Protect Domestic Jobs and America’s National Security by Restoring Requirement that Military Steel be 100 Percent Made in America; Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources, Marion’s Nucor All Involved in Production of Armor Plate WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the author of legislation to ensure that armor plate for America’s military is truly “made in America,” today applauded a move from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that restores a 35-year rule requiring that steel purchased by the U.S. military be 100 percent domestically produced. The rule, originally overturned by DoD in 2009, requires armor plate steel to be both melted and finished in the United States. Several Ohio companies, including Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources and Marion’s Nucor, are involved in the production of Armor plate. | SPONSORS
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