Chairman Gallagher: Qingdao Sunsong's U.S. Subsidiary HQ Raided by Dept. of Homeland Security

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In September, following testimony at the Select Committee on the CCP’s field hearing in Wisconsin, my colleague Darin Lahood and I uncovered a massive pattern of trade fraud by Chinese manufacturer Qingdao Sunsong, one designed to cripple American auto manufacturers.  

Roughly four months after we sounded the alarm on Susong’s operations, the Department of Homeland Security raided the company’s U.S. subsidiary headquarters.

Our review of Sunsong’s financial disclosures revealed a coordinated effort to evade trade rules by falsifying the origin of their Chinese-made products through transshipment.

But it’s also having a catastrophic impact on American manufacturers and jobs. 

Sunsong’s actions have already forced one Illinois company in Congressman Lahood’s district to lay off a quarter of its workforce and threaten to permanently shutter its operations entirely — and it is far from the only Chinese company taking these unfair actions. 

We must enforce the law and properly punish these companies in order to shift incentives. 

Otherwise, PRC companies will continue to break trade rules and destroy both our livelihoods and the industrial might of our heartland for their own benefit.