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USW Cites Today’s China Commission Findings:  Subsidies Continue to Harm U.S. Manufacturers

For Immediate Release                                        November 16, 2006

PITTSBURGH - Five years after the U.S. Congress granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to the Peoples Republic of China, it continues massive subsidies to its own industries that harm U.S. manufacturers, United Steelworkers President Leo. W. Gerard said today.

The 2006 annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released today provides further evidence that China has been seriously inconsistent in meeting the obligations it incurred upon its entry into the World Trade Organization.

 “Anywhere you look, by almost any measure, the U.S.-China relationship is moving in the wrong direction,” Gerard said.  “And there is no better evidence than at Goodyear, where 15,000 of our members have been forced out on strike by a company that has announced it plans to increase its tire imports ten-fold from Communist China, where workers are routinely oppressed.”

The Commission, charged by Congress to evaluate the national security implications of bil