In a 2016 landmark success over the attrition of unfair competition, Weldbend Corp., a U.S. PVF manufacturing company, accomplished anti-dumping success where previous attempts had failed.
While the current U.S. Department of Commerce-mandated levels of punitively large import tariff increases from Italy, India and Spain have been focused on finished carbon steel flanges, these were subsidized by the major foreign producers’ home countries. Although these will likely discourage such illegality in the future, it’s only a first step in protecting such outstanding independent American manufacturers from the rampant competition to which they have been exposed for years.