CHARLESTON, WV (WVDN) — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Friday wrote a letter to the International Trade Commission, urging the body to reverse its decision against imposing tariffs on tin steel imports that caused a northern West Virginia tin plant to cease operations.
The idling of the Cleveland-Cliffs operations in Weirton resulted in the laying off of around 900 workers.
“Your mistaken decision will have real consequences for West Virginia,” Attorney General Morrisey wrote. “Weirton is a community that has already been dealt blow after blow and has suffered a decline in manufacturing.”
“Now, it will have to grapple with the loss of yet another important American manufacturing facility because of unfair foreign market manipulation.”
