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Tim Morris
Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Support - Americas
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JLG Industries
If you’re following the news, you’ve seen that the U.S. International Trade Commission and the EU Commission have been investigating Chinese access equipment manufacturers for flooding global markets with artificially low-priced MEWP (mobile elevating work platform) exports.
Many industries have faced long-standing similar challenges with below-market-priced products from China achieved through unfair practices like dumping, subsidies and state intervention, including the steel, solar, aluminum, electronics, semiconductor, textile, furniture, auto parts and chemical industries. More recently, the U.S. government has taken action to protect clean energy industries such as electric vehicles and battery manufacturers in the U.S.
At JLG, we welcome healthy competition if it is free and fair trade. We also support regulatory and legislative efforts to protect our industry and others from producers selling goods below market value or receiving unfair subsidies. A free and fair access equipment market ensures healthy competition so that all players can succeed on a level playing field.
A free and fair market also preserves quality, innovation and service. At JLG, we take pride in maintaining uniformity in quality and performance across all our global operations and production facilities, including in Europe, North America and Asia. This ensures our stakeholders' confidence in our gold-level standards.
For 55 years, JLG has built trust and confidence worldwide through the performance and innovation of our products and services. This has only been possible because we conduct ourselves ethically and legally in all markets we operate in and will continue to do so.
As these investigations and cases continue, we remain fully cooperative and committed to promoting free and fair global competition within the access equipment industry, which benefits all stakeholders, including customers, partners, team members and communities.
Learn more about our company’s mission and guiding principles at JLG.com/AboutJLG.
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