"oIn This Issue:
- A Hundred Years Of Making Furniture In Southern Virginia. And Then Came China.
- Domestic OCTG Industry Largely Prevails In Trade Cases, But Some Foreign Producers Avoid Duties
- News Of Note:
..United States Claims Victory As WTO Appellate Body Issues Report In Dispute Over China's Rare Earth Export Restraints
..Russia Announces One-Year Ban Against Imports Of Agricultural Products From Western Countries
..United States Hosts Summit With African Leaders Contacts
- Excerpt from A Hundred Years Of Making Furniture In Southern Virginia. And Then Came China:
Beth Macy's Factory Man (Little, Brown, 2014) is a great recounting of an untold piece of American business and manufacturing history. It begins in 1902, when John D. Bassett (called "Mr. J.D.") started Bassett Furniture in his front yard, using the lumber from his own small sawmill, and then built Bassett Furniture into one of the largest furniture manufacturers in America. It concludes with the great battle that his grandson, John Bassett III, led against Chinese unfair trade over a century later, when Chinese furniture manufacturers dumped their way into the U.S. market.
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