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Imports as a Cause of Injury : The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry

Grossman, Gene M. - 1984

Recently, the United States International Trade Commission conducted a Section 201 or "escape clause" hearing to determine whether imports have been the most significant cause of injury to the U.S. steel industry. This paper suggests a methodology for conducting the necessary analysis for such...

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Trade Policy and Market Power : The Case of the US Steel Industry

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2007

A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms'...

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United States Steel's Acquisition of the Great Northern Ore Properties : Vertical Foreclosure or Efficient Contractual Governance?

Mullin, Joseph C. - 1996

This paper examines United States Steel's acquisition by long-term lease of the iron ore properties of the Great Northern Railway. This 1906 transaction, which significantly increased U.S. Steel's already substantial ore holdings, has been characterized by contemporary observers and modern...

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Steel Protection in the 1980s : The Waning Influence of Big Steel?

Moore, Michael O. - 1994

The U.S. integrated steel industry has been very successful in securing import protection over the last 20 years. Critical to that success has been a cohesive coalition of steel producers, the steelworkers' union and 'steel-town' congressional representatives. The political strength of this...

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Quality Upgrading and its Welfare Cost in U.S. Steel Imports, 1969-74

Boorstein, Randi - 1987

In this paper we measure the quality change which has occurred in U.S. steel imports during the 1969-74 VRA, using an index number method. Under this approach, the yearly changes in unit values is broken into three components: a quality-adjusted or pure price index; a quality index, which...

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World War I and the Restructuring of International Business

Fertik, Ted - 2020

This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second … the construction of massive steel works in Brazil and other industrializing countries around the world. These investments … would provide the foundation for the import-substituting policies of the post-World War II era …

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Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000

An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper considers the impact of import tariffs on the domestic pig iron industry, the basic building block of the entire...

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The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy

Choi, Jaedo; Levchenko, Andrei A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper provides causal evidence of the impact of industrial policy on firms' long-term performance and quantifies industrial policy's long-term welfare effects. Using a natural experiment and unique historical data during the Heavy and Chemical Industry (HCI) Drive in South Korea, we find...

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U.S. Antidumping Policies : The Case of Steel

Eichengreen, Barry J. - 1983

This paper examines the controversy surrounding recent allegations that foreign producers are dumping steel products onto U.S. markets. The paper is in four sections, which take four quite distinct views of dumping and recent U.S. antidumping policies, emphasizing the changing definition of...

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Have Angels Done More? The Steel Industry Consent Decree

Ichniowski, Casey - 1981

This study analyzes the Consent Decree of the United States' basic steel industry which reformed plant seniority systems to accommodate issues of equal employment opportunity. The plant-by-plant litigation brought under Title VII and Executive Order 11246 is shown to be the main catalyst which...

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