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Article: Trade Wars Launched With Ruses, End Runs; Outrage in Canada as U.S. Firms Sever Ties To Obey Stimulus Rules
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- The Washington Post
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- May 15, 2009
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Is this what the first trade war of the global economic crisis
looks like?
Ordered by Congress to "buy American" when spending money from
the $787 billion stimulus package, the town of Peru, Ind., stunned
its Canadian supplier by rejecting sewage pumps made outside of
Toronto. After a Navy official spotted Canadian pipe fittings in a
construction project at Camp Pendleton, Calif., they were hauled out
of the ground and replaced with American versions. In recent weeks,
other Canadian manufacturers doing business with U.S. state and
local governments say they have been besieged with requests to sign
affidavits pledging that they will only supply materials made in the
USA.
Outrage spread in ...