USW International President Leo W. Gerard was among those featured in today's panel on the manipulation of Chinese currency hosted by the Economic Policy Institute.

Currency manipulation makes imports artificially cheap and artificially inflates the prices of U.S. exports. This puts U.S. manufacturers "at a huge competitive disadvantage," as President Obama recently noted. 

Research by leading economists has consistently shown that five countries are the most egregious currency manipulators—China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore. 

Check out this video of President Gerard discussing why this is such an important issue: