Steelmakers such as U.S. Steel have decried such subsidies, which they don’t get, as distorting the market and fueling global overcapacity, which drives down prices.

The United Steelworkers union blames imports for more than 19,000 layoffs of steelworkers and iron ore miners over the last few years.

The trade organizations behind the report are hoping to keep China from being granted market economy status in the World Trade Organization in December, which potentially would remove dozens of tariffs the United States already has imposed on Chinese steel.

The report found in 2014 China made 822 million tons of steel, or about half of the steel made in the world. The Chinese economy and demand for steel there has slowed, so Chinese steelmakers have been dumping excess steel abroad, creating a global import crisis that’s resulted in layoffs and mill closures.

“It is unreasonable to believe that U.S. steel pipe and tube producers can compete in the global trade arena when a foreign government is subsidizing its steel industry,” said Roger Schagrin, Executive Director of the Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports. “It is time that our U.S. government and our global allies work together on a definitive policy that will end this chronic overcapacity which has resulted in plant closures, worker reductions and injury to communities across the United States.”

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