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Tariffs may be set on certain washers

The U.S. Commerce Department has sided preliminarily with Whirlpool Inc. to impose tariffs on washing machines imported from South Korea and Mexico.

Published: July 31, 2012 at 12:05 a.m. PDT
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The U.S. Commerce Department has sided preliminarily with Whirlpool Inc. to impose tariffs on washing machines imported from South Korea and Mexico.

The department said Monday that Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. imported machines from Korea and Mexico at prices below fair market value, a practice known as dumping. The department also says it will impose duties on washing machines from South Korea made by Daewoo Electronics Corp. and from Mexico by Electrolux. The tariffs range from 9.6 percent to 72.4 percent

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