Sticky Business

USA has heavy anti-dumping duties on Chinese honey.  It is silly, since it makes no economic sense to sell something for less than it costs you to produce.  If it in fact were happening, and unlikely event, then one ought to just buy the cheap honey and distribute it, especially if you are a USA honey producer.

It is wrong to falsely label or adulterate anything, both of which this fellow did.  But the Honey Association goes to far with this statement:

Troy Fore, ABF government affairs director, wrote Judge Bucklo, "Our member beekeepers have been victimized by Mr. Fan and other individuals and companies. It is disheartening to read the documents that have been filed in the case. While our members and other American beekeepers toil to earn a living for their families and employees, Mr. Fan and his cohorts around the world schemed and planned to cheat them of the fruits of their labor.

The free market would ruin this fellow faster, without the wild overhead it costs the Feds to prosecute these cases.  Why should we pay to "save" beekeepers, why should we be forbidden to buy honey at a price the Chinese will sell?

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