Anderson, S.C. -- Eric Astrachan, executive director of the Tile Council of North America (TCNA), the trade association of America's ceramic tile producers, issued the following statement in response to the filing by domestic tile manufacturers of a Petition with the federal government, seeking tariff relief from dumped and subsidized imports of tile from China:
"America's tile manufacturers are happy to compete against fairly traded imports. We have been hammered, though, by a flood of unfairly traded imports from China. Chinese tile producers benefit from extensive government subsidies and dump their tile into the United States at ridiculously low prices," said Eric Astrachan, Executive Director of the Tile Council of North America. "Domestic manufacturers had no choice but to seek relief from the federal government from these unfairly traded imports. The future of the U.S. industry and of our member companies' thousands of employees and their families depends on it."