United States tariffs on China-made imports have helped rescue America’s left-behind textile industry from devastation after decades of free trade that came with mass layoffs of the nation’s textile workers. Ferrara Manufacturing CEO Joseph Ferrara credited tariffs on Chinese imports for helping revive his manufacturing business based in New York City, New York. Jay Self, president of Greenwood Mills, and Kim Glas, National Council of Textile Organizations president & CEO, told the Journal that lots more must be done to help the American textile industry – including much steeper tariffs.
