President Biden's Commerce Secretary nominee, Gina Raimondo, promised to take a tough stance to protect American interests, including taking "aggressive" measures to combat Chinese practices that she believes hurt American workers.
Raimondo said she appreciates Blunt's concern and mentioned that her home state of Rhode Island manufactures submarines and boats that use aluminum. She also said that China's practice of dumping cheap materials into the market ultimately harms American workers.
"China's actions have been anti-competitive, hurtful to American workers and businesses, coercive and ... culpable for atrocious human rights abuses, so whether it's the 'entity list' or tariffs or countervailing duties, I intend to use all those tools to the fullest extent possible," Raimondo testified during her confirmation hearing in the Senate as quoted by South China Morning Post.
"Having said that, China has clearly behaved in ways that are anti-competitive, dumping cheap steel and aluminum into America, which hurts American workers and hurts the ability of our companies to compete," Raimondo added as quoted by The Washington Post and continued, "So should I be confirmed, I plan to be very aggressive to help Americans compete against the unfair practices of China."
Raimondo said she agrees with President Biden that the U.S. needs to “step back” and broadly review trade policies regarding China and listen to allies and U.S. manufacturers.
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