“Once again, unfair trade practices are harming good paying, union jobs,” Lourenco Goncalves, Cleveland-Cliffs’ chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, according to the Weirton Daily Times newspaper. 

Cleveland-Cliffs and the United Steelworkers union in January filed anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions with the federal government over tin mill product imports from Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The company and the union contend that a surge in unfairly priced tinplate imports over the past two years has harmed the company and employees. 

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, last week voiced support for the petition. 

“Make no mistake, the loss of jobs in Weirton is a direct result of the dumping of imported tin mill products in our domestic market,” Manchin said. “I am adamant that we focus on returning these manufacturing jobs to the United States, but we must protect the jobs that remain in places like Weirton, West Virginia.”

The Daily Times has more here.