Zenith Electronics Corp. asked the government to...

Zenith Electronics Corp. asked the government to invoke a never-used law to monitor imports of TVs made by companies suspected of “dumping” in the United States sets that they assembled outside their home countries. Zenith, the only remaining U.S.-owned TV maker, said monitoring by the Commerce Department would discourage foreign TV makers from evading penalties imposed for selling their products in the United States at unfairly low prices. The request stems from a provision in the 1984 trade law that permits the Commerce Department to develop a 12-month monitoring program in certain cases.