“Our union is here to defend more than 28,000 tire workers from unfair trade practices,” Mr. Gerard said. “After the safeguard relief from Chinese tires that our union had fought for expired in 2012, Chinese tires came flooding back into the U.S. Today's decision confirms an array of massive subsidies from China helped to drive this wave of exports back into our market.”
After the USW petitioned Commerce in June, "the Chinese producers increased the flood of tires into our market to try to escape any additional duties on those tires," said Tom Conway, USW International Vice President and Chair of the Goodyear bargaining committee.
"As a result of today's agency determination, which includes a preliminary critical circumstances finding for all but two of the Chinese exporters, we will have the opportunity for any duties that do become final to potentially also apply to those tires that entered over the last three months, if final critical circumstances determinations are made next year,” he added.