必威体育精装版GMAT强化阅读讲义学生版--赵洪波.pdf

2013 GMAT 强化阅读讲义（第9 版）——赵洪波 Weibo address: /zhbfree 第四部分 GMAT 阅读OG 核心精讲精练篇 1 2013 GMAT 强化阅读讲义（第9 版）——赵洪波 Weibo address: /zhbfree Passage 1 笔记区 Many United States companies have, unfortunately, made the search for legal protection from import competition into a major line of work. Since 1980 the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has received about 280 complaints 5 alleging damage from imports that benefit from subsidies by foreign governments. Another 340 charge that foreign companies ―dumped‖ their products in the United States at ―less than fair value.‖ Even when no unfair practices are alleged, the simple claim that an industry has been injured by imports is 10 sufficient grounds to seek relief. Contrary to the general impression, this quest for import relief has hurt more companies than it has helped. As corporations begin to function globally, they develop an intricate web of marketing, production, and research 15 relationships. The complexity of these relationships makes it unlikely that a system of import relief laws will meet the strategic needs of all the units under the same parent company. Internationalization increases the danger that foreign companies will use import relief laws against the very 20 companies the laws were designed to protect. Suppose a United States-owned company establishes an overseas plant to manufacture a product while its competitor makes the same product in the United States. If the competitor can prove injury from the imports—and that the United States company received 25 a subsidy from a foreign government to build its plant abroad—the United States company’s products will be uncompetitive in the United States, since the