Trade
Unfortunately, so-called “free” trade agreements like NAFTA and the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have allowed millions of good American jobs to be outsourced overseas where products can be produced cheaply, without those protections. Unfair trade agreements have helped spur the loss of more than 56,000 American manufacturing companies over the past 20 years. To that end, I am a strong supporter of Trade Adjustment Assistance which is designed to help through monetary assistance, job retraining and other benefits, those workers who have lost their living wage jobs due to our unfair trade deals.
I will continue to oppose the TPP, and similar agreements which would force Americans to compete against foreign operations that provide little or none of the wages, benefits, health, safety, environmental and human rights protections that have helped us build the strongest middle class in history.
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[WASHINGTON D.C.] U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan today urged President-Elect Donald Trump to join him in his unequivocal support of the use of exclusively American-made products in all U.S. infrastructure projects.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. and the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) today jointly announced that U.S. Representative Rick Nolan (D-MN) was honored with the “2016 Congressional Steel Champion Award” from AISI. The award recognizes Rep. Nolan for his dedication to and support of the American steel industry and its employees.
Lourenco Goncalves, Cliffs’ Chairman, President and CEO, and Thomas J. Gibson, AISI President and CEO, presented the award at a gathering of Cliffs’ employees at Hibbing Taconite mine in Hibbing, MN.
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan today announced the dramatic results of his work against illegal foreign steel dumping. The Obama Administration’s historic crackdown began after White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough visited Minnesota’s Iron Range at Nolan’s request last December, which resulted in some of the highest tariffs and taxes ever imposed on steel from China and 11 other trade cheater nations. In the three most important trade cases for the U.S. iron ore and steel industry in 15 years, China was hit the hardest with combined steel tariffs and taxes of up to 522%.
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan on Friday applauded final determinations for tariffs (taxes) on lowgrade, foreign government subsidized coldrolled steel from several additional foreign nations announced this week by Department of Commerce. The U.S. International Trade Commission is expected to finalize them in September.
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan today applauded final determinations for tariffs (taxes) on low-grade, foreign government subsidized cold-rolled steel from several additional foreign nations announced this week by Department of Commerce. The U.S. International Trade Commission is expected to finalize them in September.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. International Trade Commission has finalized hefty tariffs on illegally subsidized steel from China.
Those imports have been cited as the main culprit in devastating the nation’s iron ore and steel industries the past year and leading to closing of plants and layoffs of tens of thousands workers across the country, including on the Iron Range.
The new tariffs, which are the same as taxes, are:
Washington, D.C. (NNCNOW.com) -- The U.S. International Trade Commission has finalized new taxes on steel from China.
The taxes call for a countervailing rate of 256 percent on Chinese cold-rolled steel; and an anti-dumping rate of 209 percent.
Minnesota's Eighth District Congressman, Rick Nolan, is praising the decision to hike up taxes for steel coming in from China.
His office believes these taxes will provide long-term help to America's beleaguered iron ore mining and steel industries.
WASHINGTON (KDAL) - With the steel industry reeling on the Iron Range, the U-S International Trade Commission is stepping in.
The I-T-C has approved finalizing crippling new tariffs on steel from China. Eighth District Congressman Rick Nolan says the I-T-C's vote was unanimous. The democrat adds their decision imposes an antidumping rate of 265% and a countervailing rate of 256% on Chinese cold-rolled steel. It also includes an antidumping rate of 209% and a countervailing rate of 241% on Chinese corrosion-resistant steel.
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan today joined Iron Range leaders in Virginia, MN to urge the U.S. Forest Service to hold a public listening session on whether or not to renew federal mineral leases for the Twin Metals Minnesota project on the Iron Range. The U.S. Forest Service currently has the public comment and listening session scheduled to take place in Duluth on Wednesday, July 13.
The leaders at the press conference argued that the current location is too inconvenient for anyone who lives and works on the Range.
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan today testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission for the second time in less than a week, demanding that the tariffs (taxes) be made permanent in a steel case.