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Canada might even be able to enlist one of America’s most powerful corporate families — the Koch brothers — in a battle against anti-dumping, one of the great protectionist rackets in international trade.

Anti-dumping allows corporations in one country to claim that foreign corporations are “dumping” goods at below normal prices.

Evidence that anti-dumping theory is economic hokum was on full display this past week in a final Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) report on Canada’s anti-dumping prosecution of U.S. drywall exporters.

One of those exporters, Georgia Pacific LLC, is owned by the Koch brothers, considered by some to have great influence over Trump appointees, if not Trump himself.

Trump’s trade minister, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, may have opened up an opportunity for Canada on Wednesday when he said that “all aspects of NAFTA will be on the table,” reportedly including the infamous dispute settlement panels that are set up to review anti-dumping decisions.

That complicates matters. First, Georgia-Pacific is also a producer of softwood lumber. Second, the dispute settlement system has served Canada well in the softwood lumber cases brought by the U.S. and now vulnerable to review under Trump.

Canada has a long history with anti-dumping, pro and con, dating back to 1904. That’s when Canada is widely credited with having been the first nation to impose an anti-dumping law. The muddled experience with the drywall case could serve as reason for Canada to make it into the history books again: we invented anti-dumping laws, so let’s now lead the fight to remove them from trade deals.