Foreign-made tin products are killing another vital U.S. industry


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Decades of offshoring and illegal trade decimated America’s manufacturing base, leaving the nation unable to produce sufficient quantities of face masks, appliances and other goods needed to battle COVID-19. The pandemic laid bare the danger of relying too heavily on foreign-made products and the urgent need to rebuild industrial capacity for national security. Sadly, however, those lessons are going unlearned. Advertisement Illegal dumping of foreign-made tin mill products — when a company or country exports these products at a price lower than the price charged in its home market — has cost thousands of workers their jobs over the past...