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Article: Tariff boost not likely to hit state firms European goods imported by Wisconsin companies not among those taxed
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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Products sold by Wisconsin companies apparently aren't included
among the European goods that were slapped with 100% tariffs on
Monday by the Clinton administration.
A week ago, some Wisconsin companies were worried that the
threatened tariffs would be placed on the products they import from
Europe and sell here.
"Most of this stuff is not going to have a big impact on Wisconsin
companies," Kirk Rossi, manager of foreign sales operations for the
Wisconsin Department of Commerce, said, referring to the items
subject to the tariffs.
Among the products that could have been subject to the tariffs are
model trains sold by William K. Walthers Inc., a Milwaukee-based
company that makes, ...