SJR80 Summary

• Recognizes the steel industry as an economic powerhouse that directly employs approximately 150,000 people in the United States, including 9,239 jobs in Alabama, and supports more than one million U.S. jobs either directly or indirectly.

• Acknowledges that finished steel imports captured 29 percent of the U.S. market in 2015, an all-time high, after more than two years of historically high import levels.

• Urges Alabama's federal elected officials, including President Barack Obama, U.S. Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives to enforce trade laws and protect the domestic steel industry from unfair foreign competition, particularly from China.

• Urges the United States Department of Commerce to maintain China's "non-market economy" status to preserve access to domestic trade remedy laws for U.S. companies and American workers.