Unions implore USTR to open Section 301 probe of Chinese shipbuilding practices

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative should take “all appropriate and feasible” steps to combat unfair policies that allow China to dominate global shipbuilding, a group of major unions charged on Tuesday in a petition urging actions under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. Such actions should include a fee charged to every Chinese-built ship that docks at a U.S. port, they say. The unions, led by United Steelworkers, open their lengthy petition by declaring that the...