Posted November 8, 2017

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With President Donald Trump visiting Asia to visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines, the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) praised the Trump administration’s recent determination reaffirming China’s non-market economy status for antidumping purposes and called for even more aggressive U.S. enforcement to crack down on unfair trade practices.

 

“The evidence could support no other decision,” said NCTO President & CEO Auggie Tantillo as NCTO concurred with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s exhaustively researched determination that China is still a non-market economy. “Properly defining China as a non-market economy simply confirms what every U.S. manufacturer already understands – China has a set of unfair and extraordinary advantages that allow them to displace investment, production and employment in our market.

 

“We encourage President Trump to use his trip to Asia to reaffirm his commitment to enforcing America’s trade laws fairly, but resolutely,” Tantillo continued, pointing to public comments filed by NCTO suggesting additional reasonable activities the U.S. government could undertake to improve trade enforcement, thereby creating more good jobs.

 

Source: NCTO