The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is investigating several countries under Section 310(b) of the Trade Act of 1974 relating to structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sectors.
“The United States will no longer sacrifice its industrial base to other countries that may be exporting their problems with excess capacity and production to us,” said trade ambassador Jamieson Greer. “This overproduction displaces existing U.S. domestic production or prevents investment and expansion in U.S. manufacturing production that otherwise would have been brought online.”
The investigation will cover the following economies: China, the European Union, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Japan and India.
