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This may be a hugely unpopular opinion, but I don’t think it should be legal to sell a product at a loss, except maybe in clearance situations. Like you should be able to sell a product for $100 then use $1 million investment to develop a new process, then sell for $80 with the cheaper process, but not sell for $80 while the cheaper process is being developed.


In some industries you can and some you can't. Particularly if to another country.

For example China was accused of Steel Dumping.


Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy). I’m guessing you’re seeing some problems tackled by policies around dumping as techpineapple mentioned




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