On October 19, Whirlpool will ask the International Trade Commission (ITC) to recommend that a 50 percent tariff be imposed on nearly all washer imports to the U.S.\u00a0 Whirlpool is trying to abuse U.S. trade laws to decrease competition and increase their profits, at the expense of consumers and retailers. If enacted, virtually all washer imports to the U.S. will cease. We hope the ITC will see Whirlpool\u2019s proposal for what it really is \u2013 a way to protect their bottom line and their shareholders by excluding competition \u2013 and we look forward to presenting our arguments before the ITC.<\/p>\n
Following today\u2019s hearing we will be posting Samsung\u2019s testimonies to the newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On October 19, Whirlpool will ask the International Trade Commission (ITC) to recommend that a 50 percent tariff be imposed on nearly all washer imports to the U.S.\u00a0 Whirlpool is trying to abuse U.S. trade laws to decrease competition and increase their profits, at the expense of consumers and retailers. If enacted, virtually all washer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17446],"tags":[49,8344,510],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-16042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-official-statements","tag-home-appliances","tag-international-trade-commission-itc","tag-washerdryer"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":true},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/14151232\/samsung-logo.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/14151232\/samsung-logo.png","primary_category":{"term_id":17446,"name":"Official Statements","slug":"official-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17446,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":40,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/official-statements\/","term_path":"official-statements"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=16042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}