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THE BATTALION Page 9 , THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1981 1 ^State Angered with cheap imports Study J i. Mat)' U.S. Steel to file complaints ’■m.Tlie )rew •rrowky >ocu. feersiu Monday wtedio 11 Rudd« ill be ai t 1 I sawi Mama a se attora ! he «i >ore’s ti mggiriy imentsa t and n( earingi it beta msbani ge aperadi | tion ofi ce, wk imenti /ere ik liveras rease-as its Meni .s not ng bul ]] and I United Press International HOUSTON — American steel producers, angered and worried that foreign producers are dump ing tons of cheap steel into the United States, plan to challenge their foreign competitors with leg al action. David Roderick, chairman of United States Steel Corp., Tues day said U.S. Steel will file as many as 14 anti-dumping com plaints and countervailing-duty cases over the next six months to stop the flow of cheap foreign steel into the American market. The heads of several steel pro ducers also expressed concern to the American Iron and Steel Insti tute about foreign underselling. Republic Steel Corp. Chair man William]. DeLancey empha sized that the American producers do not want a protected market. “The fact is, our industry be nefits from foreign trade,” DeLan cey said. “We want free trade, but only if it is also fair trade, and that is all we seek in objecting to dumped and subsidized imports.” Industry statistics for 1981 show steel is being imported at record rates — up more than two million tons for the first eight months of 1981 over the same period in 1980 — and foreign steel is claiming a larger portion of the available supply. August imports alone totalled 2.2 million tons, the high est single-month figure on record, and accounted for 25 percent of domestic sales. Although there is a system to track the price of foreign steel im ported into the American market. Texas politicians bagged in Russia for early arrival Roderick said it does not work and he plans to file complaints with the Treasury Department to stop fore ign underselling. “With the breakdown of the effectiveness of the Trigger-Price Mechanism in monitoring and regulating foreign imports, and with the mechanism proving use less in preventing dumping, I be lieve we have no other recourse but to seek relief provided us under the law, he said. The mechanism provides a re ference for detecting potential violations of U.S. trade law by establishing price grades for im ported steel products based on manufacture, shipping and insur ance costs. “Its enforcement is not strin gent enough,” Roderick said. “The lag between setting the trig ger price and measuring its effect is so great the problem has be come academic.” Roderick said it’s too early to tell what effect the complaints will have. “We are not sending signals to commerce or Congress; we are using the legal means at our dis posal to insure out survival.” Roderick did not specify who the target in the complaints was, but said U.S. Steel had compiled evidence for five or six cases already and was working on about eight others. If the company can prove the anti-dumping complaints, the government can fine importers who bring foreign steel into the country at prices that are lower than the steel producers’ home- market price, or lower than manu facturing costs, an industry spokesman said. The countervailing duty cases, if proved, will provide a floating tariff on steel products from fore ign producers that get govern ment subsidies. The extra duty would approximate the amount of the subsidy, the spokesman said. United Press International AUSTIN — Rep. Gibson D. Lewis, D-Fort Worth, and former Rep. Richard C. Slack may think twice before including the Soviet Union in their next six-week, around-the-world hunting safari. When Lewis and Slack arrived at the Russian border after hunt- ingin Mongolia about three weeks ago, officials confiscated their passports and visas because they were not scheduled to enter Rus sia for two more days. Russian offi cials, however, did not stop them from continuing on to Moscow. “When we landed the first time inside Russia, the agent told us. Hey, this is too early,”’ Lewis said. “They took our visas away, and our passports, too. So when we got to Moscow, as we walked off the plane, one of those guys said we were in the country illeg ally.” Without their documents, the two men were ordered to a ram shackle hotel with an armed guard at the door. There they spent the next five days without hot water nor heat despite temperatures of 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. “We finally got out of there by bluffing a little over the airline re servations, fudging a little about the time,” Slack said. Their troubles were not yet over, however. Although the Soviets allowed them to fly on to Bombay, they were not allowed to take their clothes, weapons, or hunting trophies with them. 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