Continuing the passion that has become a trademark of its Section 332 Investigation with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the U.S. metalcasting industry, with the support of AFS, testified before the ITC during a public hearing held October 14 in Washington D.C. This hearing was the sole opportunity for representatives from both sides of the Section 332 Investigation-U.S. producers of metal castings and foreign producers of metal castings importing low-price product into the U.S.-to provide verbal comments to the ITC. This public hearing is the last formal step for the ITC in its Section 332 Fact-Finding Investigation to determine the extent to which the U.S. metalcasting industry has been harmed by low-price foreign competition. The first step was a survey distributed to more than 1,000 U.S. producers of metal castings, followed by surveys distributed to U.S. purchasers of castings and foreign producers of castings importing components to the U.S.
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