Companies such as Erie Coke suspect that the Chinese foundry-coke producers are flooding the U.S. Market with cheap foundry coke. Those companies use government subsidized raw materials and transportation as well as child labor to produce cheap foundry-coke, undercutting American manufacturers, according to the American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute. Imports of Chinese coke have increase 10 times since 1989 and even more dramatically in the last 18 months. Chinese imports in 1993 were 123,000 metric ton of metallurgical coke, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. By 1996 that number soared to 1.4 million metric tons.
Statistics show that the coke industry in general is being slammed by Chinese imports.
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