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Can’t Americans Make Glass?
Seeing China from the new World Trade Center
by
J im H ightower
pany named Beij ing Glass got
You can knock us
the government contract to
Americans down, but
provide the window panes
you c a n ’t keep us
that’ll cover the first 20 sto­
down.
ries o f the tower. Yes, the
For exam ple, the
monument to our national
twin towers o f the
spirit is being sheathed with
W orld Trade Center
made-in-China glass.
in New York City were crashed to
What? C an’t American’s make
the ground on 9/11. But now, a glass? O f course we can, but our
new tower is rising from those biggest corporations, like Coming
very ashes-a soaring steel and Incorporated and Guardian Indus­
glass m onument to the American tries, have been quietly and quickly
spirit, a powerful symbol o f our moving their production and our
national resilience.
jobs to China.
Well-except for the glass. A com­
In just the past nine years, 30
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the Chinese governm ent. For ex­
ample, shipping heavy glass from
Beijing to M anhattan would be
p ro h ib itiv ely ex pensive-except
that China subsidizes the trans­
portation.
This isn’t free trade, it’s a raw
deal. There should be a stiff tariff on
all subsidized glass coming from
China-and the new World Trade
tower is so symbolically important
that every inch o f it should be Ameri­
can made.
For more information, contact the
United Steelworkers glass industry
department at usw.org.
percent o f these jobs have been
lost. “Those who’re looking through
the rearview mirror waiting for the
glass industry to come back,” snorts
the chairman o f Guardian, “should
know it isn’t going to come back.”
Indeed, Guardian now employs more
workers in its 36 foreign plants than
it does here.
Well, chirp the usual flock o f
free-trade economists, it’s all about
China providing “econom ies o f
scale” for manufacturers. Hogwash.
T he g la s s in d u s tr y ’s ru sh
abroad is all about getting cheap
Jim Hightower is a columnist fo r
labor and m assive subsidies from minutemanmedia. org.
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