Sentences with phrase «unfair subsidies»

"Unfair subsidies" refers to financial assistance or support provided by the government or other organizations that are considered unjust or biased. These subsidies may give certain businesses or individuals an advantage over others, leading to an unequal or unjust competition. Full definition
To do this, the administration wants to eliminate unfair subsidies.
Domestic producers including Nucor Corp., U.S. Steel and AK Steel began filing trade cases accusing some global competitors of unfair subsidies and other illegal trade practices in June.
U.S. plane manufacturer Boeing, which had initially complained that Bombardier was benefitting from unfair subsidies by the Canadian government, had only asked for an 80 % levy.
Companies that receive unfair subsidies from their governments, such as grants, loans, equity infusions, tax breaks or production inputs, are subject to «countervailing duties» aimed at directly countering those subsidies.
Citing unfair subsidies given to biodiesel producers in the United States, as well as dumping that subsidized fuel into its markets, the European Union has approved duties on imports of US biodiesel.
The United States slapped Chinese steelmakers with final import duties of 522 % on cold - rolled flat steel on Tuesday after finding their products were being sold in the U.S. market below cost and with unfair subsidies.
The U.S. wants to get rid of NAFTA's famous «Chapter 19» binational panels, which decide if one NAFTA country can impose duties on another for allegedly unfair subsidies or selling goods at unfairly low prices.
He campaigned in support of Oxfam and their position on the U.S. Farm Bill to help those farmers avoid unfair subsidies.
Officials from Canada and the United Kingdom testified in support of Bombardier's case, including David MacNaughton, Canada's ambassador to the United States, who disputed Boeing's claim of unfair subsidies and argued that Boeing itself was heavily subsidized.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced the initiation of new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether certain steel wheels from China are being dumped in the United States and if producers in China are receiving unfair subsidies.
One way ALEC is doing this is by entering the fight against net metering, which utility companies argue is an unfair subsidy for solar that doesn't take into account fixed costs like grid maintenance and labor.
American trade officials, who see what they consider to be low timber royalty rates on Crown lands as a subsidy, have historically been willing to consider those operations free of unfair subsidies.
Utilities argue that net metering amounts to an unfair subsidy for solar, not taking into account fixed costs like grid maintenance and labor.
In fact, government support for any service that can also be provided by the private sector could be considered an unfair subsidy and be subject to lawsuits launched by international corporations.
«Something has to be done before the justifiable resentment felt by many people about the unfair subsidy English taxpayers are expected to contribute towards superior services north of the border, manifests itself in an anti-Scots backlash.»
«We have a lower and lower use of capacity simply because we can not compete with people who are flooding our market because of unfair subsidies,» European Biodiesel Board secretary general Raffaello Garofalo was quoted in The Guardian as saying.
Exempting e-tailers from collecting sales tax creates an unfair subsidy that penalizes brick - and...
Fundamentally, the critics say, home owners are getting an unfair subsidy and one that benefits only the rich.
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