MEDIA ADVISORY: Wisconsin Roundtable on CCP Threat to American Manufacturing

STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN- On Wednesday, August 30, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party will host a roundtable event in Stoughton, Wisconsin on the Chinese Communist Party's threat to American manufacturing. The event will feature remarks from the members as well as manufacturing leaders and stakeholders, who will speak about the CCP’s deliberate undermining of American manufacturing.

Some of the manufacturers and other stakeholders in attendance will include:

Bob Wahlin - CEO of Stoughton Trailers

Steve Kramer - President of United Steelworkers, Local 9777

These leaders, alongside additional stakeholders, and Select Committee members, will discuss the Chinese Communist Party's past and ongoing attempts to hollow out U.S. manufacturing centers, adding to the CCP's track record of economic coercion, intimidation and theft.

The event will be broadcasted on the Select Committee's social media and website.

The event is open to members of the press.

Media planning to attend must RSVP to allison.aprahamian@mail.house.gov

Media wishing to broadcast the event with an RTMP stream key please contact allison.aprahamian@mail.house.gov

High resolution B-roll, video, audio and photos from the event will be uploaded for distribution HERE.

Please RSVP by 9:00a.m. CT on August 30th.

Details:

When: 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT, Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Where: Stoughton, Wisconsin. Details available upon RSVP.

Background: Stoughton Trailers is a Wisconsin based business that manufactures a variety of semi-truck trailers and intermodal container chassis in WI, TX, and MS. The company’s business was undermined by PRC state-owned enterprise CMIC, which began selling PRC-manufactured chassis to the U.S. for less than the price of the raw materials to produce the same chassis domestically. Stoughton and the Coalition of American Chassis Manufacturers initiated an anti-dumping and countervailing duty case against CMIC which it won in 2020. Since then, as a result of the tariffs imposed on imported chassis, Stoughton has added a production line in Wisconsin, built a new manufacturing facility in Texas as well as started a manufacturing operation in Mississippi with a manufacturing partner, creating hundreds of jobs for American workers.