Contributed by: filbert Monday, August 01 2005 @ 08:52 AM CST
In a weird echo of the trade war which occurred in the 1930’s in the run-up to World War II, Japan is imposing retaliatory tariffs of 15%[*1] on American steel. No world war expected to result from this trade spat, however. Japan is complaining about the Byrd Amendment, intended to prevent dumping of low-cost foreign goods into the U.S. market.