We Can’t Afford To Ignore Unfair Trade

Saving Steel in the USA

Foreign countries like China are cheating when it comes to international trade. They are tilting the trade scales in their favor by using unfair tactics such as subsidies, currency manipulation and dumping. And they are getting away with it, because trade laws that would hold China and other offending countries accountable are not being enforced. That ...more

Editorial by Clarke Thomas, Post-Gazette senior editor Some people like to blame union labor and high wages for the plight of the steel industry -- for the lost jobs, outsourcing, stranded mill towns. But what's not generally realized is that in recent years the United Steelworkers union has done much to stabilize the industry with ingenious actions ...more

Domestically-Produced Steel Critical to National Defense and Security

USW Decries Trade Commission Decision Revoking Orders on Unfairly Traded Steel Imports

The critical interdependence of domestically-produced steel and America's national security is detailed in a new industry analysis released today, which urges public policies that promote further investment in domestic manufacturing rather than increasing reliance on foreign sources of steel and steel-related products. Issued by the American Iron and ...more

The United Steelworkers severely criticized the decision handed down today by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to revoke antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of certain steel products from all countries currently covered except Germany and Korea. “Today the Commission turned a blind eye to the unfair trade practices harming ...more