Late to the game on this thread, but....
To answer a couple recent questions, YES, Whirlpool does indeed manufacture washers in the U.S. and NO, not just low end stuff.
Clyde Ohio, the largest source of washers in the country and possibly the world is making the last of the low-end DirectDrive washers, AND the new belt-drive top loaders and Cabrios. THEY ARE ALSO NOW MAKING NEW FRONT LOADERS and lots of them. I believe the smaller Duet Sports are still imported. The vast majority of WP laundry (including their other brands and house names) are all U.S. made.
As to dumping, regardless of whether WP deserves to be dumped on with perceptions of low quality of Duets (never had use for one myself) the business definition of dumping involves unfair cost competition OR purposeful selling below cost or margin in order to strangle competitors.
Though the discussion can go on for hours/days about why consumers buy what, or whether or not a company's products are complete crap or not, dumping refers to a seller offering their product in a market, in large and long-term quantity, at less than its appropriate price in order to unfairly drive others from the market.
This is a difficult case to prove, but when Asian manufacturers, whose workers earn in one year what Americans do in a week or a few weeks, have such lower and different cost structures (there are even much less restrictive laws in some parts of Asia regarding metal prep solvents, paints, and other chemical disposal and storage which greatly affect cost here) it becomes difficult if not impossible for U.S. manufacturers to compete effectively without lowering quality. Quality does not come free, in fact it can often be VERY expensive to maintain.
In my view, we as Americans or even Western world residents outside the U.S. have to think very carefully about our buying decisions. Is the $659 Samsung really worth the price over the $789 WP? Though I don't want to throw around the $130, we cannot deny that the Samsung was made with cheaper labor and labor laws, it was built using parts and supplies that are not regulated by departments such as the EPA and OSHA, etc. and its largest cost is often transportation to market!!! What this boils down to is Westerners expecting to continue to absorb all the benefits we have, but take advantage of lower cost goods made in other parts of the world where such benefits are not available. These benefits won't be here either at some point if we don't wake up.
We have what we have in the western world because we built it ourselves in the 20th century. If we keep bleeding money to other parts of the globe, we drive cracks into the foundation of what used to hold up our economy, which is manufacturing jobs and infrastructure, and we risk our identities, and our lifestyle.
Personally I would never purchase a Samsung anything, nor have I ever owned a foreign car or large appliance. I sometimes wonder about buying certain goods if we are encouraging mediocrity by favoring local or U.S. supplies, but I simply don't believe the alternative is worth even a trial. We can't keep sending our monies off-shore indefinitely without eventually loosing the whole of who we are.
There are societies on this earth who want to take over the western world. We MUST maintain our self-sufficience in order to sustain ourselves and defend. We DO NOT need washers made in Korea.
If WP can prove dumping, I say "more power to them, let the field of competition be fair and level and nothing but, and let the consumer make their choice by what is best, not by what is subsidized".
Gordon
), Miele - they are niche brands here. Even some of the Euro brands like Asko manufacture their large machines in Asia. (I think LG builds them). 
