21 Feb, 2012

U.S. Protectionist Policies Help Few, Hurt Many (Magnesium Industry Reveals …

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
At a time when U.S. trade family with tellurian partners are underneath the microscope, often ignored are those (anti-dumping) domestic policies that are a serve interruption to U.S. competitiveness globally and pursuit creation.

Obama’s ancestral 2025 CAFE Standards (to reduce emissions and lift a fleet’s fuel economy to 54.4mpg) has bearing Magnesium into the spotlight. Its lighter, some-more structurally sound properties make it a prerequisite for many industries, but generally U.S. automobile — now clamoring to incorporate it some-more into their vehicles. For example, Ford has set an assertive lightweight plan this year pursuit for 250 pounds of magnesium calm per car — shortening bucket immensely, thereby improving fuel economy.

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, who owns one of the largest magnesium producers in the world, International Magnesium Group (IMG), highlights dual essential challenges: a singular supply of affordable magnesium in the U.S and the inability to contest globally opposite the backdrop of cheaper Magnesium sources accessible abroad. This directly tarnishes the US pursuit marketplace in auto, technology, and manufacturing.

“Dumping” is when unfamiliar countries inundate markets with products at prices reduce than marketplace value. Anti-dumping laws are import taxes that are set to strengthen domestic companies opposite astray unfamiliar competition. Where Mg is concerned, these laws have had the different outcome — suffocating entrance to Mg, “the immature steel of the 21st century,” and wiping out important US production jobs in the process.

MAGNESIUM DEMAND

To strech 2025 CAFE standards, the automobile attention will mostly rest on magnesium to urge aerodynamics and weight reduction. Other important US industries like die-casting and parts production demeanour to Magnesium to abate their products, strengthen materials and develop their designs to allege marketplace standards.

The record attention also relies on magnesium to make sleek, simply unstable electronics. Nikon’s new D4 DLSR is a photographer’s dream, and the durable inlet of its magnesium physique helps retard out mud and particles from entering the casing. Likewise, Acer recently expelled the world’s thinnest ultrabook, the S5, which weighs reduction than 3 pounds interjection to its magnesium frame.

IMG Director Alex Markin says, “High synthetic import taxes, like those imposed on solar and steel and alien magnesium, simply detract from the ability of USA downstream manufacturers to be globally competitive. We wish our supervision will palliate and mislay these constraints.”

COMPETITION and US JOBS

The Cato Institute states, “President Obama claims to support America’s exporting and so-called ‘green jobs’ industries, but he also likes manners that shorten the importation of vicious inputs to those industries. Anti-dumping manners are ostensible to strengthen American manufacturers and, by extension, American jobs. But it doesn’t work out that way.”

To put this into perspective, the North American Die Casters Association estimates that 1,875 approach jobs and 8,000 ancillary jobs have been destroyed since the 2005 anti-dumping orders took effect. Contrast this with the 400 jobs “protected” by one tiny Mg association in Utah, overdue their existence to the protection of Senator Orrin Hatch.

The U.S. is forced to compensate over $5,500 per ton for magnesium, while Europe only has to compensate $3,200 per ton — scarcely twice the amount. This makes foe scarcely unfit for US industries opposed for business on tellurian scale. US products turn prohibitively expensive, while European competitors innovate by cheaper means; environment U.S. production behind even serve at a time when the administration needs it to grow.

OUTLOOK

Should a fashion continue to be set for magnesium, other industries are likely to tumble chase to these rough protectionist policies that criticise our economy and make it unfit to contest globally. Lifting antidumping tariffs on Mg alone would pave the approach for a some-more strong American production industry.

IMG is one of the largest producers of magnesium in the world, and is in the routine of laying the grounds for a broad-based bloc to quarrel opposite anti-dumping measures in the steel industry. This is same to the solar industry’s Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) and they both will wish to lift recognition and fight these counterintuitive trade policies.

About CD International Enterprises, Inc.

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, is a U.S. formed association that produces, sources, and distributes industrial line in China and the Americas and provides business and financial consulting services. Headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Florida with corporate offices in Shanghai, CD International’s singular infrastructure provides a height to enhance business opportunities globally while effectively and well accessing the U.S. collateral markets. For some-more information about CD International, greatfully visit
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