Dumped Chinese glass pushes Australian industry to the brink

Australia's Dandenong glass factory workers joined a fight last week against illegal 'dumping' of cheap Chinese-made products, according to an April 18 Greater Dandenong Weekly report.

The Australian Workers' Union visited Viridian in Greens Road, Dandenong South, last Tuesday [April 12] as part of its campaign against Chinese exportation of hundreds of thousands of tons of cheap Chinese glass to Australia, a practice known as dumping.

The AWU believes the imports - which cost less than glass manufactured in Australia - breach the World Trade Organization's free trade rules and put Australia's glass industry at risk, according to the report.

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