Bost Leads Bipartisan Effort on Enforcement of Trade Remedy Laws

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Reps. Mike Bost (R-IL) and Rick Nolan (D-MN) authored a bipartisan letter this week urging Congressional leadership to prioritize the enforcement of United States trade remedy laws in upcoming appropriations legislation. Bost is working to ensure that a law he introduced and helped pass in June is fully implemented, thereby improving America's trade remedy laws and empowering U.S. companies and workers to respond rapidly to illegally-traded imports.

"When U.S. Steel announced the idling of Granite City Works, due in part to unfairly traded imports, I knew our trade remedies laws had to be fixed immediately," said Rep. Bost. "I'm pleased that my legislation was signed into law to do just that; but the federal government must dedicate the resources necessary to investigate these anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases. This is a crossroads for America's steel industry, as thousands of hardworking steel and iron workers are on layoff and multiple steel facilities have been idled."

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