Press Release
Contact Information:
Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association
Lisa Samuels
Director of Marketing and Communications
703.674.0358
Release Date:
March 6, 2025
KCMA Joins Coalition in Support of Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act
RESTON, VIRGINIA: 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 Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act is a bipartisan, bicameral bill to finally hold 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.
“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.”
KCMA was proud to join the following organizations in speaking in support of this legislation:
Coalition for Prosperous America
Zekelman Industries
Plews and Edelmann
Parkdal Mills
Rever Copper
M&B Metal Products Company, Inc
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry
FDP Virginia Inc.
To view the entire press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_y_5u4gPC8. Natz’s comments begin at time stamp 26:00.
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ABOUT KCMA. The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1955 to represent companies who manufacture cabinets, bath cabinets, or other residential cabinets and key kitchen and bath industry suppliers. With a membership now more than 300 strong throughout North America, KCMA works to advance the cabinet industry through advocacy, setting cabinet quality standards, sponsoring kitchen and bath cabinet-related research, and providing the cabinet industry with management tools and educational programs.
KCMA establishes and promotes standards for the kitchen cabinet industry; defends and advocates in support of the cabinet industry; and arms our members with valuable tools necessary to promote and grow their cabinet businesses.
