U.S. Shrimpers File Complaint Against 6 Countries (bad news for Shrub)

[54anickel]

Uh-oh. How's Shrub gonna deal with this from those southern states he needs? They are screaming for protection.

edit for link:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4061897
U.S. Shrimpers File Complaint Against 6 Countries

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shrimpers in the southern United States on Wednesday asked the Bush administration to slap duties on shrimp shipments from China, Vietnam, Ecuador, Brazil, India and Thailand to stem cheap imports of the shellfish.
The shrimpers sent petitions to the Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission asking for that conditions of fair trade to be restored by imposing anti-dumping duties on the shrimp imports from the six countries.

Preliminary duties could be imposed on shrimp imports in the spring depending on rulings from the two agencies
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The industry group, representing shrimpers in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, complain that several countries have flooded the U.S. market with pond-raised shrimp at below-market prices.

[Pale_Rider]

1. Those six countries probably ...

... have some of the worst environmental protections around. I wouldn't trust any fish or shellfish product coming out of those countries.

[54anickel]

3. I look for stuff from Singapore myself. But alas, haven't been able

to afford any yummy shrimp in a looooong time.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Shrub Sucks Say Shrimpers

Some lucky editor on a rim somewhere is getting to write that headline right now.

I am green with envy.

[54anickel]

4. Try and say that fast 3 times. n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Simple.... He'll just call the associated Heads of State and explain

that the tarriffs will only be in effect until November.

Then it's back to fuck the little guy.