Unfair Trade
- From Paper to Pipe and More, USW Leading Unfair Trade Fight The USW is on the front lines against unfair trade that is costing working families their jobs. Click here for more information.
- USW Updates and Background on 421 China Tire Case You can find background and other information about the USW's major trade case against the flood of imported consumer tires from China here.
- USW Urges U.S. to Reject Latest Doha Paper for WTO Rules Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers (USW), today issued a statement and release of a letter calling on the Bush administration’s top negotiators in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to again reject the latest draft rules that would weaken workers’ defense
- USW Affirms U.S. Subsidy Duties on Line Pipe Imported from China Thomas M. Conway, Vice President of the United Steelworkers (USW), affirmed today’s vote by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to impose anti-subsidy duties on China imports of lined pipe at levels ranging between 36 to 40 percent.
- Trade Deficit with China Spirals to New Record Today’s announcement that the U.S. trade gap with China jumped last year by 10.2 percent to $256.3 billion is another alarming reminder that the nation’s trade policies are broken and failing America’s working families.
- USW Supports 'Trade Enforcement Act of 2008' The United Steelworkers (USW) is supporting a new trade bill, “The Trade Enforcement Act of 2008” (H.R. 6530), introduced last week by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-NY, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander Levin, D-MI.
- Administration Responds to China Trade Subsidies For the first time ever, the Commerce Department today decided that countervailing duty law could be applied to non-market economies, possibly leading to new duties on imports of high-gloss paper from China.
