Garamendi Applauds Biden Administration’s Investigation to Protect U.S. Shipbuilding

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA08), a senior member of the House Committees on Armed Services and Transportation and Infrastructure, issued the following statement after U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai announced a full investigation into the People’s Republic of China’s unfair shipbuilding and maritime trade practices.  

Earlier this week, Garamendi joined 37 of his Democratic Congressional colleagues in a letter urging the Biden Administration to investigate China’s unfair, anticompetitive shipbuilding, transportation, and logistics policies that harm American shipbuilders, manufacturing, and workers following a United Steelworkers-led petition.

“I am thrilled that President Biden and Ambassador Tai are launching a full investigation of China’s unfair shipbuilding and shipping practices that undercut American jobs. After years of endless happy talk in Washington, the Biden-Harris Administration is finally turning free trade into fair trade, stopping Chinese state-controlled companies from gutting our manufacturing jobs. American workers in the maritime industry deserve nothing less than the full support of their federal government, and they have it in me and President Biden. Skilled American workers in our commercial shipyards are ready, willing, and able to do the job if given the chance.”

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