Up until the 1990s, the United States held its own in glass manufacturing.
However, China’s aggressive export strategy, which flooded the US market with thousands of goods, hit the glass industry hard.
In June last year, the Alliance for American Manufacturing released an analysis detailing the threat Chinese imports posed to US manufacturers.
In a briefing by the Economic Policy Institute, the glass industry appeared well aware of the dangers of Chinese imports.
They noted that the US glass industry lost almost 40,000 manufacturing jobs between 2000 to 2008.
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