HJR383 Summary

• Urges Alabama's congressional delegation and President Donald Trump to defend the domestic wooden kitchen and bath cabinet manufacturing industry from unfair trade practices by foreign exporters, specifically China.

• Identifies Chinese "dumping" (estimated at 140 percent margin) and exporter tax concessions/subsidies (estimated at 20 percent) as causing material injury to the U.S. cabinet industry.

• Notes Chinese cabinet imports have doubled from 2012 to 2016, currently representing approximately 15 percent of the U.S. market share with over 300 Chinese manufacturers and 550 U.S. companies involved in importing these cabinets.

• Calls for enforcement of anti-dumping and counter-vailing duty laws through litigation and political action to create a level playing field for competition rather than special protectionist treatment.

• Compares the threat to Alabama's cabinet industry to the decline of the American wooden furniture industry, which was similarly devastated by unchecked unfair trade practices.