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“This isn’t just about the MTA, but the misconception that everything has to be made in China. The Chinese manipulate their currency; they’re not working on the same level as us. We shouldn’t let them win on the basis of cheating. They’re not playing by the same rules,” Gerard said.
The MTA says that no American company can make the high-tech steel based on the orthotropic design. But Gerard said that’s malarkey.
“There was lot of engineering design work already done at Leigh University. There are at least two or three fabricators that could fabricate the steel. And there are certainly American steel producers that could make it.”
Mr. Gerard believes that the MTA purposely designed the bid to make it difficult for American steel producers to meet the bid’s specifications and therefore farm it out to China.
“There were companies arranging the financing to get ready in case they won the project, but they never got the chance to bid because the subcontractor sourced the steel from China,” said Gerard.
Senator Charles Schumer, as with Mr. Gerard, wrote a letter to the MTA; he strongly argued against the MTA’s decision to use Chinese-made rather than American-made steel because it represents a race to the bottom for the worldwide steel industry because American and other countries’ steel industries can’t match Chinese prices.
Sen. Schumer was criticized by a July 20 New York Post
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