Solar Tariff Suspension

Floor Speech

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to call out China for its long history of predatory dumping and tariff avoidance.

We have seen China cheat on this game before on everything from steel to autos to solar. It hurts American workers and American companies that I represent in Ohio.

China is a nation that does not abide by global trading rules. Fair trading nations must apply strict scrutiny and appropriate penalties in response.

I welcome the administration's focus on boosting manufacturing of critical solar components here in America. But we cannot encourage a tilting of the playing field that favors a country whose sinister trade practices have crushed the American middle class.

Ohio's workers make and build the products that make and build America. Our Nation must respect them, as well as the innovative companies that are working to deliver America's energy independence in perpetuity.

Let's champion free trade among free people.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Source