Domestic Industry Trade Group Wants Opportunity to Rebut Section 301 Exclusion Requests
The Coalition for a Prosperous America asked the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to allow domestic companies to rebut exclusion applications that claim that there are no affordable alternatives to Chinese products. "Unlike the prior tariff exclusion rounds, the Biden Administration has chosen not to afford any opportunity for domestic producers to rebut unsubstantiated and false claims in importers’ requests," the Coalition wrote in a letter it made public on Dec. 6. It said that USTR needs to closely scrutinize the 2,024 exclusion requests.
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They quoted an exclusion request from the Retail Industry Leaders Association as an example of what it says are false claims on a gun safe: "To our knowledge, based on research, there is not a manufacturer available in the U.S. that is able to manufacture our quality of product at the price point our consumer needs. The use of a manufacture[r] in the U.S. is not economically feasible as the goods cannot be produced at a price point needed for our consumers.”
The CPA says Liberty Safe and Security Products in Payson, Utah, is the No. 1 seller of residential safes in the U.S. "There are many more American producers of gun safes with digital keypads that match the RILA’s submission. And of course, there are many producers in third countries as well," they wrote.