Under this 1994 rule, U.S. pencil manufacturers could petition the department to put a steep levy on Chinese companies found “dumping” pencils. At the same time it was fending off China ...

At some point, the domestic pencil industry charged that Chinese pencil manufacturers were flooding the U.S. market and selling their pencils for less than it costs to make them. The U.S ...

When you think about the pencils you wrote with as a kid—blonde ... lobbying the federal government to impose a steep tariff on Chinese pencil companies—more than doubling costs for some ...

Chinese pencils have long been subject to a stiff anti-dumping tariff, which would have more than doubled the importer's cost. An unannounced factory visit yielded damning evidence. According to a ...

But not yet. On Tuesday, he packed up a box of finished pencils made from Chinese poplar, glad he still had work.