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Another bill facing major pushback is the Trade (Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties) Amendment Bill. This bill puts a public interest test on top of the rules — or what is left of them — protecting local businesses from goods being dumped on our shores, at prices below what they cost to produce. The public interest test would ask whether the benefits to consumers from dumped goods would outweigh the damage to those local businesses. The resistance has been fierce, but at least it is more coherent and at a more appropriate stage than Dunne faced with the contractors bill.