There’s always a lot of complaining when a domestic manufacturer asks the federal government to enforce U.S. trade law.
Importing industries, or their associations, will often smear petitioners, as happened to the California solar panel manufacturer that accused Chinese companies of circumventing U.S. duties.
Like-minded ideologues, like those on the editorial board of a national newspaper, will effectively call petitioners crony capitalists, like they did recently when opining on a pending trade case that alleged more than half a dozen countries are dumping tin-mill products in the American market.
