Indonesia joins China and South Korea on US trade hit list

Nikkei Asian Review ^ | February 23, 2018 | SIMON ROUGHNEEN

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JAKARTA -- Indonesia is the latest Asian country to face American trade curbs after the U.S. Department of Commerce said it planned to slap anti-dumping duties of 92.52% to 276.65% on biodiesel imports from the archipelago.

Argentina, another biodiesel producer, was also targeted by the Feb. 21 announcement, after U.S. businesses complained that they were being undercut by unfairly subsidized fuel from both countries. The commerce department said that exporters from Argentina and Indonesia respectively sold biodiesel in the U.S. at 60.44% to 86.41% and 92.52% to 276.65% below what it deems fair value.

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Go get 'em, Donald.

:D

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https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/Indonesia-joins-China-and-South-Korea-on-US-trade-hit-list?page=1

[Gay State Conservative]

If we're gonna make a list of bad trading partners we should focus most closely on those trade "enemies" that are also political and/or military enemies.

So that would mean that China and Mexico,for example,would be higher on the list than South Korea/Japan/Canada...or even Germany.And that would apply despite dollar figures suggesting a different approach.

If forced to choose between the two I'd rather see the US treated unfairly by Canada than China.

[central_va]

We can make, grow and mine everything ourselves with very few exceptions.

[MAGAthon]

hope someone will post this article, so it isn’t just in the comments here.

another disgraceful character who runs to the FakeNews at the first opportunity:

22 Feb: NYT: Former Trump Aide Calls Paris Climate Accord ‘a Good Republican Agreement’
By Lisa Friedman
“I’m going to say something controversial,” the former adviser, George David Banks, said in an interview. “The Paris agreement is a good Republican agreement. It’s everything the Bush administration wanted.”...

The White House did not respond to a request to comment on Mr. Banks’s views.

Mr. Banks acknowledged that his was the minority position in an administration that ultimately was eager to keep Mr. Trump’s campaign promise and to undo Mr. Obama’s broader climate change agenda. Still, he insisted that Mr. Trump remains open to returning to the Paris agreement...

Previously the executive vice president of the American Council for Capital Formation, a business-oriented think tank, Mr. Banks began his career as an economic analyst at the C.I.A. He served in the State Department and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, both under former President George W. Bush...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/climate/george-david-banks.html