Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is introducing a bill she says aims to change trade laws so China can no longer “take advantage of U-S workers and rip off U-S businesses.” Hinson, a Republican from Marion, says federal agents recently raided an Ohio warehouse that’s a subsidiary of a Chinese auto parts maker, which had been shipping in parts via Thailand to avoid import taxes. Hinson says the practice causes “severe economic harm to American competitors.”
The U-S Department of Justice currently has a trade fraud task force, but Hinson says it’s only seen limited success.
Hinson says the Chinese Communist Party, or C-C-P, is responsible for siphoning billions of dollars from the U-S economy.
Hinson says the D-O-J task force is “under-resourced,” so her bill would allot 20-million dollars to establish the new task force.
Hinson says the bill, the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act, has bi-partisan and bi-cameral support.
