Senators Reveal Bipartisan Bill Protecting American Workers From China’s ‘Unfair Trade Practices’

A pair of U.S. senators on April 16 unveiled a bipartisan bill aimed at strengthening domestic trade remedy laws and protecting American workers from what they called China’s “unfair trade practices.”

Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced the Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act, saying in a press release that strengthening U.S. laws will ensure they remain “effective tools” to fight back against Beijing’s trade practices.

It will protect American workers in sectors that are important to the state of Ohio, said Portman and Brown.

The bill would establish a new concept of “successive investigations” to improve the effectiveness of the U.S. trade remedy system in responding to “repeat offenders and serial cheaters,” helping to level the playing field for American workers, the senators said.