{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mrvan-leads-congressional-steel-caucus-testimony-itc-unfair-imports-rebar", "Mrvan Leads Congressional Steel Caucus Testimony to ITC on Unfair Imports of Rebar", "2024-10-03", "2024", "2024-10", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Frank J. Mrvan", "M001214", "mrvan.house.gov", "mrvan", "https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Rep. Frank Mrvan, Vice Chairman of the Congressional Steel Caucus, along with Congressional Steel Caucus Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01), submitted testimony to the International Trade Commission (ITC) during their hearing on unfair imports of rebar from several countries.\n\nThe text of the testimony submitted to the ITC is below and a pdf is available here.\n\n\u201cWe write today in strong support of affirmative finding in the ITC\u2019s five-year sunset review of antidumping duties on unfairly traded imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar (\u201crebar\u201d) from Belarus, China, Indonesia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine.\n\n\u201cAs Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Congressional Steel Caucus, we represent workers and facilities manufacturing steel and rebar products, including the United Steelworkers and the U.S. manufacturers which filed the original petitions, and we believe these trade remedies are critical to the economic vitality of the U.S. steel industry and its workers.\n\n\u201cRebar strengthens our nation\u2019s buildings, roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure. The imposition of antidumping duties has ensured that steel producers have the certainty to make significant investments to expand our country\u2019s rebar production capabilities and invest in our workers. We believe that the potential removal of these antidumping duties would unnecessarily threaten the industry at a crucial time for the U.S. infrastructure investments.\n\n\u201cA recent review by the Department of Commerce found that if the trade remedies were not continued, producers in these seven countries would resume dumping rebar into the United States at margins ranging from 17% to 233%. This domestic industry has been materially injured by several waves of unfairly traded imports in recent years, and it now faces growing global capacity that increasingly targets the U.S. market. We are concerned that these imports would depress U.S. prices, injure U.S. producers and have a devastating impact on the investments being made to enhance U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.\n\n\u201cIn Northwest Indiana, in Arkansas, and across the country, workers and their families rely on the domestic steel industry\u2019s ability to compete on a level playing field. The full and strong enforcement of U.S. anti-dumping duty laws is needed to ensure true market competition for rebar products, which are critical to the success of our nation's economy.\n\n\u201cWe thank the Commission for its serious consideration of the facts in today\u2019s case, and for its dedication to upholding and enforcing our trade laws.\u201d\n\nThe Congressional Steel Caucus is a bipartisan group of over 100 Members of Congress dedicated to supporting the health and strength of the American steel industry and its workforce.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mrvan-leads-congressional-steel-caucus-testimony-itc-unfair-imports-rebar"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6572350393980742, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}