WASHINGTON – Last week, Ambassador Jamieson Greer delivered virtual remarks for the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity’s Ministerial meeting, voicing support for a framework to address global steel excess capacity and calling on like-minded partners to implement similar measures to restore a level playing field for our workers and producers.
His remarks were quickly met with praise from industry leaders and manufacturers:
Specialty Steel Industry of North America Chairman and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Stainless and Alloy Products Inc. Chris Zimmer: Ambassador Greer is exactly right that there is an urgent need for collective action now by GFSEC members to develop a new framework to address excess steel capacity. SSINA urges other governments to work together with the United States to develop a new joint framework and action plan to resolve this urgent and long-standing problem.
American Iron and Steel Institute President and CEO Kevin Dempsey: AISI strongly supports Ambassador Greer’s statement today before the ministerial meeting of the Global Steel Forum on Excess Capacity (GFSEC), and we echo his message that existing international trade rules have proved inadequate to discipline the policies and practices that have caused the global steel crisis. We particularly want to highlight the importance of Ambassador Greer’s call for other governments to join with the United States to take action to address more fully excess capacity in the steel sector and its impacts on steel producers and workers in many regions of the world. We are pleased that GFSEC members have discussed a framework for joint action to address the root causes and effects of global excess steel capacity, and we applaud the strong leadership of Ambassador Greer and the Trump trade team in confronting this challenge head-on.
Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports Chairman Steve Robins and Executive Director and General Counsel Roger Schagrin: The industry and its workers recognize the importance of addressing chronic and massive global excess capacity in steel which has had a damaging effect on the domestic steel pipe and tube sector. We agree that to adequately address steel overcapacity across the globe stakeholders must explore and develop a new framework that would embrace innovative ideas and take actions that will address and remedy the problem. Our industry members were pleased to learn that members and stakeholders have agreed to work on a framework with the United States to address the core issues of global steel overcapacity.
Steel Manufacturers Association: Thank you, @USTradeRep and @POTUS, for the necessary steps you have taken to secure steel manufacturing jobs at home, and thank you for pushing for a framework that can help stabilize a global steel industry distorted by excess steel capacity in China and elsewhere.
Alliance for American Manufacturing: This growing international alignment on countering China’s decades-long excess steel capacity is exactly what’s needed to fully signal that the Asian nation’s non-market practices and policies will no longer be tolerated. The United States is far from the only economy to feel the pain that this overcapacity has wrought, nor should it be only one to fight back.
Watch Ambassador Greer’s full remarks here.
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