Senator Sherrod Brown Pushes for Crackdown on Unfair Trade Hurting Local Aluminum Extrusions Workers
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The U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition (USAEC) is a coalition of 14 American extruders. The coalition and the United Steelworkers union (USW) are petitioning the U.S. government to stop unfairly traded imports of aluminum extrusions from 14 countries, including China, Malaysia, Mexico, and Vietnam, which are injuring U.S. manufacturers and workers.
U.S. trade laws require the federal government to impose duties on unfairly imported products.
Foreign producers, in places like China, Malaysia, Mexico, and Vietnam, are selling aluminum extrusions in the U.S. at prices far below the fair market cost of manufacturing. This practice violates trade laws, has caused thousands of Americans to lose their jobs, and threatens the jobs of thousands of others, many of whom are members of the USW.
Letter to the Commerce Department signed by Ohio Senators J.D. Vance (R) and Sherrod Brown (D) and Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar (D) and Tina Smith (D) Among Others
The coalition is asking the Commerce Department to remedy the full extent of dumping and subsidization by extruders in the subject countries. They also want the Department to impose duties to offset the subsidies being granted to extruders in China, Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey. The products covered should include extrusions and the aluminum extruded components of larger parts and subassemblies.
U.S. companies and workers can compete with anyone, but only when foreign countries play by the rules and don’t undercut American manufacturers subsidies and by dumping their products in the United States. U.S. trade laws require the federal government to impose duties on unfairly imported products. USAEC and USW are pursuing that remedy, which would boost domestic production, supply chains, investment, and job creation.