After Congress ended a decades-old honey subsidy program, beekeepers responded by asking the International Trade Commission to approve duties on Chinese honey under a Cold War-era law allowing sanctions on communist countries. China supplies 20 percent of America's honey. The ITC agreed to 25 percent tariffs, but that wasn't enough for beekeepers. They accused the Chinese of dumping honey below cost in the United States, and the Clinton administration then proposed tariffs of up to 157 percent.

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