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Article: To revive Mfg., bank proposes carbon tax on Chinese imports.
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- Manufacturing & Technology News
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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Imposing a carbon tax on Chinese imports would lead to a resurgence of the U.S. manufacturing industry, according to a report from Canada's largest banking firm, CIBC World Markets. A carbon tariff on imported goods, "may be the only way developed nations will be able to achieve real cuts in global greenhouse gases," says the firm.
The United States and other developed nations are rejecting carbon reduction programs because China and India would be exempt, providing their companies with an unfair advantage.
"As OECD countries begin to tax their own economies by charging growing fees on [CO.sub.2] emissions, their tolerance of the carbon practices of its trading ...
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