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Article: Chinese tire producers hire U.S. government's top trade officials in '421' dumping case.
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- Manufacturing & Technology News
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- June 16, 2009
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It didn't take long for a handful of the Bush administration's top trade officials to start representing foreign business interests. Eight members of the House of Representatives have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate five recently departed senior trade officials at the Department of Commerce who are representing Chinese tire companies in the "Section 421" case that was recently brought before the International Trade Commission.
According to congressional lobbyist disclosure forms, former senior officials at the Commerce Department's Import Administration have been hired by the "American Coalition for Free Trade in Tires" to lobby U.S. ...