International Trade Crimes Act gets industry backing

March 9, 2025 | 7:39 pm CDT

RESTON, Va. — On March 5, 2025, Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA) CEO Betsy Natz joined several other industry leaders at an event held by the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The press conference was hosted by Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), along with Representative Ashley Hinson (R-IA) to announce the introduction of the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act.

The Act is a bipartisan, bicameral bill to that the KCMA holds China accountable for "decades of evading U.S. trade laws through transshipment, duty evasion, and forced labor." It ensures the Department of Justice has the resources it needs to fully implement and enforce President Trump’s trade agenda.

“From steel pipes to….kitchen cabinets, these crimes by the CCP have devastated America’s manufacturing and too many people have lost their jobs because of it,” according to Krishnamoorthi.

According to Natz, “For the last five years [the domestic kitchen cabinet industry] has been under siege by relentless trade fraud,” said Natz. Through the American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance (AKCA), KCMA successfully litigated “one of the largest trade cases in US history,” and proved that the industry had been materially injured as a result of unfair trade.

Additionally, Natz pointed out that AKCA has filed many cases with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and allegations under the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) and “won in every case at the investigative level, only to have the leadership of CBP overturn those decisions…it’s time to arm the Department of Justice and CBP with the resources they need to punish fraud swiftly.”