When those countervailing forces weakened and when markets got tougher, the culture of trust went out the window.
Many Chinese goods face "countervailing" duties when they are shipped to America.
In one case, the United States accused China of violating world trade rules when it imposed antidumping duties and countervailing duties on grain-oriented, flat-rolled electrical steel, which is used to make transformers and reactors used to generate electricity.
In recent decades, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have been using their natural-resources as collateral to access sources of finance for investment, countervailing the barriers they face when accessing conventional bank lending and capital markets.
The agency's unwillingness to reconsider its policies in the face of countervailing scientific evidence was perhaps best demonstrated when DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart testified before Congress in June 2012.
When they burst, they are likely, in the absence of countervailing public action, to drag the whole economy down with them.
But there are countervailing primate characteristics that turn the tables on the manipulators when conditions are right.
The bill provides that cases under U.S. trade law, specifically the countervailing duty law, could be filed against such currency manipulation when the imports caused by the manipulation harm U.S. industry.
Still, there was a countervailing strain to the national mood as well; Henry David Thoreau spoke for many when he longed for a simpler, more contemplative time, as did Edgar Allan Poe, who opined, "Democracy is a very admirable form of government — for dogs".
With respect to the use of performance measures for accountability we find countervailing effects, as the effect on functional strategic decision influence is positive when the measures are more reliable but negative when they are more specific to the functional subunit.
