Alliance for American Manufacturing
Scott Paul, Executive Director
The Alliance for American Manufacturing is a nonprofit think tank, founded in 2007 and supported by manufacturing companies and the United Steelworkers Union. The following is excerpted from an August 7, 2009, statement by Scott Paul before a hearing of the Trade Policy Staff Committee of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on the matter of "Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires From China."In our view, enforcing American trade laws to prohibit unfair trade practices, such as import surges, shouldn’t be a question for our nation’s leaders. It should be virtually automatic. Americans who work hard and play…