Trade lessons lost on leaders THE Coalition is cranky about Labor pinching its tough stance on border protection. No, not the offshore processing of asylum-seekers, but the menace of imports at prices lower than in their home market. When, late last year, Labor announced it was stripping the Customs department of its responsibility for policing the "dumping" of foreign goods in the Australian market and giving it to a new, specialist commission, Coalition industry spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella complained that "Labor has been shamed into following the leader, the Liberal leader," with a copycat announcement.