“The U.S. industry and its workers are suffering today as a result of dumped and subsidized imports from China and India,” said Daniel B. Pickard, a lawyer with Washington, D.C., firm Wiley Rein, which is representing domestic producers Core Pipe Products Inc. and Maass Flange Corp. in the case. 

The companies filed the case together as the Coalition of American Flange Producers. The coalition also contends that producers in China and India have benefited from unfair government subsidies, such as tax breaks and discounted land and raw materials. 

“The import data clearly demonstrate that the volume of Chinese and Indian stainless steel flanges sold in the U.S. has increased significantly this year, and that the foreign producers of these subsidized and dumped imports have taken sales directly from U.S. manufacturers,” the coalition said in a statement.