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Democracy Now! Hosts a Debate on the WTO Ruling Against GW’s
Steel Tariffs
Rep. Bernie Sanders, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
and Watchdog Chuck Lewis Speaking From The National Conference
on Media Reform
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 Democracy Now! Hosts a Debate on the WTO
Ruling Against GW’s Steel Tariffs
INTRO: The World Trade Organization ruled that the President
Bush had broken international law by imposing tariffs on imported
steel. We host a debate with the president of the Steel Manufacturers
Association and a member of the Institute for International
Economics.
The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that President
Bush had broken international law by imposing tariffs on imported
steel.
The White House is now under pressure to either remove the
tariffs by Dec. 15th or face up to $2.2 billion in punitive
taxes on U.S. exports on a range of products from key states,
including Florida oranges as well as tobacco and sporting
goods. $2.2 billion the largest sanctions ever handed down
by the WTO.
The office of the U.S. Trade Representative said it disagreed
with the WTO decision and would study its report. They had
argued that the tariffs were needed to help its struggling
steel industry to consolidate and remain competitive in the
face of cheap imports.
The steel tariffs have proved controversial in the U.S.,
where they dented President Bush's credentials as an advocate
of free trade and angered American-based car-makers who say
the tariffs increased the price of their raw materials.
But the White House is also facing heavy political pressure
to keep the tariffs, which are due to continue until 2005.
A bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers called on President Bush
to fight the WTO ruling. Republican Rep. Bob Ney said “our
country needs to stand up to these foreign bullies and keep
the tariffs in place."
- Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at
the Institute for International Economics. A study by the
IIE calculated the duties cost steel users more in lost
jobs because of tariff inflated steel prices than steel
producers gained.
Link: www.iie.com
- Tom Danjczek, president of the Steel Manufacturers Association.
Link: www.steelnet.org
8:18-8:19 One Minute Music Break
8:30-8:35:00 Rep. Bernie Sanders, FCC Commissioner
Jonathan Adelstein and Watchdog Chuck Lewis Speaking From
The National Conference on Media Reform
This past weekend the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted
the National Conference on Media Reform. Organizers expected
about 200 people at the event – over 2,000 showed up.
Within the past year, media reform has gone from being a
sidelined, focus-group topic to the second most important
issue in Congress following the war.
The National Conference on Media Reform this weekend brought
together labor, community, and media activists as well as
FCC and Congress members for three days to consider ways to
get the public more involved in debates over media policy.
We play excerpts from the speeches given at the National
Conference on Media Reform. We hear from Chuck Lewis, Executive
Director of the Center for Public Integrity, Rep. Bernie Sanders,
Independent Congressman from Vermont, and FCC Commissioner
Jonathan Adelstein.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
Our email address is mail@democracynow.org.
Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Jeremy Scahill and Parvez Sharma.
Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Johnny Sender, Rich Kim, Joe Murgio, John Randolph,
Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu
(RAY MA MU), Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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