The steel makers want trade protection from low-priced imports.

Some falsely contend that our companies cannot compete with low-priced imports produced by low-paid Mexican workers.

For years, the apparel industry has blamed low-priced imports, which now control 60 percent of the domestic market, for its problems.

The low-priced import from Yugoslavia, which entered the United States market in 1985, has had problems.

Steel makers want trade protection from low-priced imports, but they also want billions of dollars to help pay health and pension benefits.

This is to prevent low-priced imports undercutting home produced goods.

The restrictions are a slap at the administration after it agreed to discuss the laws, which allow countries to retaliate against low-priced imports, in Doha.

At first mostly American growers fed the demand, but in the last decade, as low-priced imports from Mexico surged, domestic production collapsed.

Already Administration officials are taking every opportunity to mention the benefits of low-priced imports, noting that they have helped contain inflation.

Lately, the company has lost some of its edge in the competition with low-priced ready-made imports from Taiwan.