“We won’t bid on public jobs because we won’t get them,” Brett Miller, head of Building Envelope Systems, a construction firm in Plainville, said. He says that’s because companies using cheaper and often government-subsidized foreign materials can undercut his costs. The bill, known as “An Act to Promote American Manufacturing” and filed by state Rep. Joan B. Lovely, D-Salem, would require publicly-funded construction and improvement projects costing more than $500,000 to use materials that are American made.
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