61. Their representatives say the menhaden fishery is healthy and any steps to reduce the catch would further hurt the industry. 62. Under international trade rules, the EU can impose temporary limits on imports if it can show a flood of steel imports is or threatens to hurt its industry. 63. However leftist groups in this country charge that the economic liberalization that APEC brings will only hurt local industries and further increase poverty. 64. A premature dismantling of one or several nuclear reactors would seriously hurt industry, which has not yet developed alternate energy sources, they said. 65. Dumping not only hurt domestic industries which had been opeting for years, but also troubled some newly-developed industries, the official said. 66. The electronics industry has been hurt by a slowdown in the personal computer, disk drive and semiconductor sectors mainly due to excess inventories. 67. The liberalisation overturned four decades of protectionism under which foreign companies were shunned in the belief they would hurt domestic industry. |