

What is Section 301?
How the U.S. can begin to turn the tide on China's domination of global shipbuilding.
The Congressional Research Service sums up Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 as granting the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) a range of responsibilities and authorities to investigate and take action to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and respond to certain foreign trade practices. American Industrial Labor Unions are now calling on our nation's leaders to use this existing tool to finally defend our industrial base and our highly trained and dedicated workers.


Case Profile
A coalition of five unions this March in filed a petition calling on the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to initiate an investigation of Chinese shipbuilding.
Over the past two decades, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has employed a number of predatory, non-market practices to massively expand its shipbuilding capacity and dominate global transportation and logistics networks. Those efforts decimated China’s competitors around the world, destroying thousands of good U.S. jobs in the process.
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“The United States once had nearly 30 major shipyards; now we’re down to just a handful,” said USW International President David McCall. “That correlates with more than 70,000 lost shipbuilding jobs, not to mention all the secondary jobs the industry supports.”
Video hosted by the United Steelworkers - https://www.full-steam-ahead.org/