900 American Workers at West Virginia Plant Laid Off After Feds Refuse Tariffs on China

[anatta]

Hollowed Out Heartland: 900 American Workers at West Virginia Plant Laid Off After Feds Refuse Tariffs on China

After a federal agency refused to allow tariffs on cheap imported tin from China, 900 Americans are set to lose their jobs in West Virginia.

www.breitbart.com

Commerce to impose tariffs on cheap imported tin from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea, about 900 American workers are set to lose their jobs at a plant in Weirton, West Virginia.


On February 15, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. executives announced they will be idling the company’s tin production plant in Weirton in April, leaving about 900 Americans out of work in the small city of fewer than 20,000 residents.


The massive layoff comes after the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) — made up of four commissioners: Republican David Johanson, Democrat Rhonda Schmidtlein, Democrat Jason Kearns, and Democrat Amy Karpel — refused to allow the Commerce Department to impose tariffs on unfairly subsidized and cheap imported tin products from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea.

In January 2023, Cleveland-Cliffs executives and the USW asked federal regulators to investigate cheap tin products being dumped in the U.S. market.


Last month, the Commerce Department found “that imports of tin mill products from Canada, China, Germany, and the Republic of Korea are being unfairly priced, i.e., dumped, into the U.S. market, and imports of tin mill products from China are also being subsidized.”
he Commerce Department proposed tariffs on tin imports from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea. The ITC, though, refuted the findings and said no such tariffs are necessary to protect American jobs.
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have both denounced the ITC’s decision, which is leading to the plant’s closure.


Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), who represents the residents of Weirton, also called out the ITC as a “globalist, Democrat-led” agency that has “sided with the cheap foreign competitors” rather than American workers.

 

[StillBallin75]

Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, American and otherwise.

Rich of right-wing dweebs to pretend to care about the working class when they bootlick a system where the top 1 percent owns a third of total wealth.

 

[Grand Mal]

Hollowed Out Heartland: 900 American Workers at West Virginia Plant Laid Off After Feds Refuse Tariffs on China

After a federal agency refused to allow tariffs on cheap imported tin from China, 900 Americans are set to lose their jobs in West Virginia.

www.breitbart.com

Commerce to impose tariffs on cheap imported tin from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea, about 900 American workers are set to lose their jobs at a plant in Weirton, West Virginia.


On February 15, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. executives announced they will be idling the company’s tin production plant in Weirton in April, leaving about 900 Americans out of work in the small city of fewer than 20,000 residents.


The massive layoff comes after the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) — made up of four commissioners: Republican David Johanson, Democrat Rhonda Schmidtlein, Democrat Jason Kearns, and Democrat Amy Karpel — refused to allow the Commerce Department to impose tariffs on unfairly subsidized and cheap imported tin products from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea.

In January 2023, Cleveland-Cliffs executives and the USW asked federal regulators to investigate cheap tin products being dumped in the U.S. market.


Last month, the Commerce Department found “that imports of tin mill products from Canada, China, Germany, and the Republic of Korea are being unfairly priced, i.e., dumped, into the U.S. market, and imports of tin mill products from China are also being subsidized.”
he Commerce Department proposed tariffs on tin imports from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea. The ITC, though, refuted the findings and said no such tariffs are necessary to protect American jobs.
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have both denounced the ITC’s decision, which is leading to the plant’s closure.


Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), who represents the residents of Weirton, also called out the ITC as a “globalist, Democrat-led” agency that has “sided with the cheap foreign competitors” rather than American workers.

Really? Tin production in West Virginia? Where does the ore come from?
That company is advertising for people at it's Windsor, Ontario plant.

https://ca.indeed.com/q-cleveland-cliffs-l-windsor,-on-jobs.html

 

[dmpi]

Why can't America produce products competitively compared to other nations? Global trade should encourage competition and bring overall prices down for the consumer.

 

[Grand Mal]

Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, American and otherwise.

Rich of right-wing dweebs to pretend to care about the working class when they bootlick a system where the top 1 percent owns a third of total wealth.

There's no tin mined in the USA. It must be very expensive to produce in West Virginia.
That company wants the equivalent of a government subsidy.

 

[The Hairy Fiddler]

Why can't America produce products competitively compared to other nations? Global trade should encourage competition and bring overall prices down for the consumer.

Maybe because Americans won't work for $2.50 an hour?

 

[ttwtt78640]

Hollowed Out Heartland: 900 American Workers at West Virginia Plant Laid Off After Feds Refuse Tariffs on China

After a federal agency refused to allow tariffs on cheap imported tin from China, 900 Americans are set to lose their jobs in West Virginia.

www.breitbart.com

Commerce to impose tariffs on cheap imported tin from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea, about 900 American workers are set to lose their jobs at a plant in Weirton, West Virginia.


On February 15, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. executives announced they will be idling the company’s tin production plant in Weirton in April, leaving about 900 Americans out of work in the small city of fewer than 20,000 residents.


The massive layoff comes after the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) — made up of four commissioners: Republican David Johanson, Democrat Rhonda Schmidtlein, Democrat Jason Kearns, and Democrat Amy Karpel — refused to allow the Commerce Department to impose tariffs on unfairly subsidized and cheap imported tin products from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea.

In January 2023, Cleveland-Cliffs executives and the USW asked federal regulators to investigate cheap tin products being dumped in the U.S. market.


Last month, the Commerce Department found “that imports of tin mill products from Canada, China, Germany, and the Republic of Korea are being unfairly priced, i.e., dumped, into the U.S. market, and imports of tin mill products from China are also being subsidized.”
he Commerce Department proposed tariffs on tin imports from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea. The ITC, though, refuted the findings and said no such tariffs are necessary to protect American jobs.
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have both denounced the ITC’s decision, which is leading to the plant’s closure.


Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), who represents the residents of Weirton, also called out the ITC as a “globalist, Democrat-led” agency that has “sided with the cheap foreign competitors” rather than American workers.

IMHO, raising the price of tin in the US (by imposing tariffs) to save 900 jobs would be a bad idea.

 

[anatta]

IMHO, raising the price of tin in the US (by imposing tariffs) to save 900 jobs would be a bad idea.

on unfairly subsidized and cheap imported tin

^ tariffs because if this -basically dumping to destroy US competition

 

[anatta]

Really? Tin production in West Virginia? Where does the ore come from?
That company is advertising for people at it's Windsor, Ontario plant.

https://ca.indeed.com/q-cleveland-cliffs-l-windsor,-on-jobs.html

its - Tinplate:
consists of sheets of steel coated with a thin layer of tin to impede rusting. Before the advent of cheap milled steel, the backing metal was wrought iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture of tin cans.

Tinplate is made by rolling the steel (or formerly iron) in a rolling mill, removing any mill scale by pickling it in acid and then coating it with a thin layer of tin. Plates were once produced individually (or in small groups) in what became known as a pack mill. In the late 1920s pack mills began to be replaced by strip mills which produced larger quantities more economically.

 

[Grand Mal]

its - Tinplate:
consists of sheets of steel coated with a thin layer of tin to impede rusting. Before the advent of cheap milled steel, the backing metal was wrought iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture of tin cans.

Tinplate is made by rolling the steel (or formerly iron) in a rolling mill, removing any mill scale by pickling it in acid and then coating it with a thin layer of tin. Plates were once produced individually (or in small groups) in what became known as a pack mill. In the late 1920s pack mills began to be replaced by strip mills which produced larger quantities more economically.

Doesn't make sense. They import tin to laminate on sheet steel and they want a tariff on the tin they import? Or are they saying that tin-plated steel from other countries is subsidised?
Given that the company operates in Canada (and other countries too, probably) it sounds like they want to have it both ways.
Funny that they're hiring in Windsor, Ontario.

"TIN MILL PRODUCTS FROM CANADA, CHINA, AND GERMANY DO NOT INJURE U.S. INDUSTRY, SAYS USITC"

https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2024/er0206_64836.htm

 

[dockside]

^ tariffs because if this -basically dumping to destroy US competition

Ummm. I'm a little confused. Were the tariffs already in place? If so, when were they enacted? If during TFG's tenure, when did the WVA company start making tin products from imported tin? If it has been doing so for years before 2016, how was it able to compete in those years? If no tariffs have been in place, what has kept this company from competing and being in business until now? Not enough information to make an informed opinion. But, since it's Breitbart, just quoting CEOs and politicians is all one needs, I guess.

 

[ttwtt78640]

^ tariffs because if this -basically dumping to destroy US competition

Perhaps the problem is that more expensive US union labor can’t compete internationally.

 

[Variant]

Perhaps the problem is that more expensive US union labor can’t compete internationally.

Is West Virginia union labor more expensive than Canadian German and South Korean labor?

They were also complaining about the Netherlands Taiwan and the UK.

Apparently the US makes a significant amount of tinplate worldwide and the next largest producer is japan.

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