International Trade Law News

The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) has announced its opposition to H.R. 5529, the Trade Law Reform Act of 2006, recently introduced by Representative Phil English (R-PA). (A summary of the Trade Law Reform Act of 2006 can be found here.) The PMA said the Trade Law Reform Act "could diminish the ability of U.S. companies to access inputs such as raw materials and steel necessary to compete in an increasingly tight commercial marketplace."

The PMA is urging U.S. manufacturers to support H.R. 4217, the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act, introduced by Representative Joe Knollenberg (R-MI). H.R. 4217 would permit U.S. manufacturing companies who consume raw materials to participate as "interested parties" in antidumping and countervailing duty cases before the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission. H.R. 4217 currently has 49 cosponsors.