November 8, 2011 7:53AM 

# The Antidumping Lobby’s Power to Destroy Jobs 

By [Caleb O. Brown](https://www.cato.org/people/caleb-o-brown) 

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President Obama claims to support America’s exporting and so-called “green jobs” industries, but he also likes rules that restrict the importation of critical inputs to those industries. Austin Bragg and I produced a [short video](http://youtu.be/MD9vK5bCS7I) detailing how antidumping duties serve to nudge American manufacturers offshore or out of business. The examples we cite are American manufactured products that fall squarely into the category of “green.”

[Facebook it](http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMD9vK5bCS7I%26feature%3Dshare&t=U.S.+Antidumping+Rules+Kill+American+Jobs). [Tweet it](http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=webclient&text=VIDEO%3A+U.S.+Antidumping+Rules+Kill+American+Jobs+http%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FMD9vK5bCS7I+%40cobrown+%40habragg+%40catoinstitute). And read more of [Dan Ikenson](https://www.cato.org/people/daniel-ikenson)’s heavy lifting on the antidumping issue [here](https://www.cato.org/presidents-fealty-to-antidumping-lobby-kills-jobs-and-depresses-growth/), [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13134) and [here](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=8099).

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