华盛顿 - 2022年6月23日 - 今天，美国参议员塔米·鲍德温（D-WI）和迈克·布劳恩（Mike Braun）（R-IN）向商务部部长吉娜·雷蒙多（Gina Raimondo）致信，倡导美国面具和医疗设备制造商调查涉嫌将中国制造产品倾销到美国市场的调查。报道称，中国制造的面具和其他产品已以如此低的价格倾倒到美国市场，有时是美国制造产品成本的1/10，它为美国制造商创造了不公平的市场，驱使许多倒闭。
“This unfair competition is putting significant financial pressure on American manufacturers, driving many out of business, and threatening, for example, our ability to scale up the production of high-quality masks, such as N95 respirators, in the event of a new variant,” said the senators.
参议员继续说：“除了国内生产带来的利益为我们州的当地经济体带来了局部生产，还有助于确保最高的产品符合最高的质量，灭菌和消费者安全标准。”
这封信要求美国商务部self-initiate an antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) inquiry into masks, meltblown raw material, and other single use medical equipment imported from the People’s Republic of China. While other industries have the financial ability to petition the Department of Commerce to take such action, the U.S. mask manufacturing industry are under such extreme financial pressure from Chinese imports that they are unlikely to have the resources to spend the significant time and money needed to submit a petition to the Department of Commerce.
“Thanks to the great work by Senator Tammy Baldwin, I hope that the Department of Commerce will be taking a closer look into the problems China has caused the healthcare and domestic PPE industry,” said Nicolas Smit, Executive Director of the American Mask Manufacturer’s Association. “These problems have affected our economy, our ability to keep Americans properly protected throughout the pandemic and have caused countless domestic manufacturers to close. The days where the health and safety of Americans are put at risk due to China flooding the market with dumped, counterfeit, or substandard PPE will soon be behind us. This and other initiatives recently launched by the Biden Administration will help bring back 1000s of jobs and ensure we have all the tools needed to help keep America safe and strengthen our economy at the same time.”
“We sincerely thank Senators Tammy Baldwin and Mike Braun for their support in urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to self-initiate an antidumping duty and countervailing duty inquiry into respirator masks, melt-blown raw material, and other single use medical equipment imported from China,” said Kim Glas, President and CEO of the National Council of Textile Organizations. “Domestic PPE manufacturers that pivoted to make lifesaving face masks and other public health supplies are now facing another challenging environment where Chinese PPE production has ramped up significantly and cheap product is being dumped into the U.S. market below cost, and it is threatening our domestic PPE industry. We know the administration is committed to building and supporting PPE supply chains domestically and that is why we are urging the Commerce Department to use all of the trade remedy tools at its disposal to help support a critical domestic PPE supply chain and force China to compete on a level playing field.”
The full letter appears below:
Dear Secretary Raimondo:
我今天给你写信,请求Department of Commerce self-initiate an antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) inquiry into respirator masks, meltblown raw material, and other single use medical equipment imported from the People’s Republic of China. Single use medical equipment manufacturers throughout the country have alleged in media reports that Chinese-made products, including masks, such as including N95 respirators, and single-use instruments for joint replacement are being sold into the U.S. market for less than the cost of production. In addition to this alleged dumping, we know from previous CVD cases that Chinese exporters often receive subsidies from national and provincial governments, allowing these producers to lower their costs and their prices to levels at which American companies cannot compete.
这场不公平的竞争正在给美国制造商带来巨大的财务压力，使许多倒闭，并威胁着我们在新变体的情况下扩大高质量面具（例如N95呼吸器）的生产的能力。进口中国面具的压力对国内面具制造商非常有害，以至于他们不太可能有资源花费大量时间和金钱向商务部提交请愿书，以调查中国面具和融化的进口。我们还代表决定维护美国供应链的组成公司。除了国内生产带来了我们州的当地经济体外，本地生产还有助于确保最高的产品符合最高的质量，灭菌和消费者安全标准。
Given this financial pressure, and the information available to the Commerce Department on imports from China, I believe the circumstances warrant a self-initiated AD/CVD investigation. The AD and CVD laws provide a transparent, quasi-judicial, and internationally accepted mechanism to address the market-distorting effects caused by injurious dumping and unfair subsidization of imports into the United States. For the purpose of AD investigations, dumping occurs when a foreign company sells a product in the United States at less than its fair value. For the purpose of CVD investigations, a countervailable subsidy is financial assistance from a foreign government that benefits the production of goods from foreign companies and is limited to specific enterprises or industries, or is contingent either upon export performance or upon the use of domestic goods over imported goods. Under sections 702(a) and 732(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, which specify that AD and/or CVD investigations “shall be initiated whenever the [Department of Commerce] determines, from information available to it, that a formal investigation is warranted into the question of whether the elements necessary for the imposition of a duty . . . exist.” While self-initiated investigations are rare, in just the last month the Commerce Department self-initiated a scope and circumvention inquiry into quartz-surface products from China.
美国人必须能够依靠国内制造商及时提供所需的医疗设备。维持N95呼吸器，融化的原材料，关键医疗工具以及制造它们所需的专业知识和设备的全部生产水平是维持保证的组成部分。这一政策目标（通过维持全面制造的材料的生产水平可以在需要的情况下，可以在需要的情况下使用高质量的PPE和医疗设备 - 在2021年7月发表的国家弹性公共卫生供应链中强调President Biden’s Executive Order 14001 on “A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain.”
我相信国内医疗供应制造市场中存在的情况表明，自我定型是适当的。鉴于广泛而多样化的制造基地对公共卫生和国家安全的影响，我敦促您与国内N95呼吸器和融化的原材料制造商以及单使用工具的国内生产商合作，以调查指控，以调查这些指控。
Posted: June 28, 2022
Source: The Office of U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
