"Your bill will vastly improve the ability of these laws and the U.S. agencies charged with enforcing them to address foreign efforts to circumvent the remedies Congress intended – remedies that allow the industry to grow jobs, develop infrastructure and serve an economy recovering from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Five major trade associations representing America’s steel producers, fabricators and workers, wrote to Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown to express their full support for the Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act of 2021 (S. 1187), introduced on April 15, 2021, thanking the Senators for their continued leadership and commitment on the critical trade issues included in the legislation.
An excerpt from the letter reads: “The steel sector is a core part of the U.S. manufacturing base and is essential to our national and economic security. The U.S. companies and their workers who produce and fabricate an array of steel products rely on the availability and effectiveness of the U.S. antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) laws to counter the harmful impact of unfairly traded imports into the U.S. market. These laws are our first line of defense to offset unfair advantages enjoyed by our foreign competitors who leverage their governments’ financial largesse and protected home markets to penetrate the U.S. marketplace at the expense of our jobs and livelihoods. Your bill will vastly improve the ability of these laws and the U.S. agencies charged with enforcing them to address foreign efforts to circumvent the remedies Congress intended – remedies that allow the industry to grow jobs, develop infrastructure and serve an economy recovering from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The full letter can be read below.
