Twice this year, the Commerce Department has accused Canadian sawmills of unfair trade practices and imposed duties of 32percentt on their shipments.
The United States imposed duties on billions of dollars' worth of solar products from China over the next five years to shield American producers from lower-priced imports.
[C2.] Japan Imposes Tariffs on U.S. Steel Japan, joining with the European Union, has imposed duties on some imports of American steel.
ruled that the United States wrongly imposed duties on the ground that the former state-owned company unfairly benefited from subsidies before it was sold.
"Being French isn't just a privilege of birth, it isn't just a nationality which can be acquired, it's an ideal imposing duties on each and every one of us.
China could, in response, impose duties on products it imports from Europe, including polysilicon, one of the main components of solar panels.
It imposes duties on the PLP which, for most of the past 10 years, it has not fulfilled.
Some in Congress want to make it easier to impose duties on Chinese imports to compensate.
Europe and Japan are already furious with Mr Bush for his decision to impose duties on steel imports.
But should Beijing refuse to bend, he has said, he would instruct the Commerce Department to impose duties on Chinese imports.
But much of the monetary benefit goes to governments that impose duties on the product wherever it is sold.
