Do barking dogs seldom bite?
Nearly six weeks after U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a controversial antidumping bill on steel trade into law, Japan has not yet carried out its strongly aired threat to take the law to the World Trade Organization.
The bill allows the U.S. administration to compensate U.S. steelmakers hurt by foreign competition by sharing with those domestic makers revenues from antidumping duties imposed on foreign makers that were accused of dumping their products on the U.S. market.