About The American Trailer Manufacturers Coalition

Who are we?

Our member companies, Great Dane LLC, Stoughton Trailers LLC, and Wabash National Corporation, collectively represent the majority of U.S. van trailer production. We employ thousands of American workers throughout Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Strick Trailers LLC is a supporter of the Coalition’s petitions.

The American trailer industry directly supports over 10,000 U.S. jobs., and indirectly supports over 50,000 U.S. jobs.
Over 70% of all U.S. freight is moved by truck and trailer. The U.S. trailer industry is the backbone of our economy, keeping goods, groceries, and critical supplies moving every day. Nearly everything Americans buy, including food, clothing, medicine, and electronics, moves on a trailer at some point in its journey. Trailers link farms to factories, warehouses to stores, and producers to consumers.
Maintaining robust U.S. production is a matter of national security. Reliance on foreign-made trailers threatens the U.S. transportation industry and U.S. supply chains. The United States must be able to produce enough dry vans and reefers to meet its transportation needs.
During WWI and WWII, trailer manufacturing facilities were used to produce large military equipment. In a crisis, we need manufacturing facilities capable of quickly adapting to national security needs.

A flood of underpriced foreign trailer imports threatens to devastate domestic trailer manufacturers and the livelihoods of thousands of hardworking Americans.
From 2015-2017, an average of 48,000 van trailers were imported into the U.S. each year. From 2022-2024, this number rose drastically to an average of 80,600 trailers imported each year. This historic surge has come at the direct expense of the U.S. industry and its workers.
These foreign trailers and trailer parts are being sold in the U.S. at dumped and subsidized prices, rendering domestic manufacturers unable to compete fairly. This dynamic has led to major reductions in U.S. market share, as imports from China, Canada, and Mexico now make up 40% of van-type trailers in the U.S.
Foreign trailers are also made with aluminum and/or steel that is already underpriced and subsidized, exacerbating the domestic disadvantage.
Production and sales each declined by over 20% from 2022-2024 and are poised to decrease even further in 2025. As a result, U.S. facilities are currently operating at less than half of production capacity. This has already resulted in millions of dollars in losses for American companies, putting the entire industry at risk.
U.S. producers have been forced to layoff hundreds of employees and cut hours for remaining workers since 2022.

By filing an AD/CVD case, we are seeking objective, legal evaluation of the significant injury we have incurred as a result of foreign dumping and subsidization. Duties imposed through a favorable ruling will result in substantive protection against unfair foreign trade, enabling fair competition.
Unlike Section 232 tariffs, which can be altered and lifted at any time, the legal process behind AD/CVD duties results in long-lasting measures that meaningfully protect our industry and level the playing field.

Relative to the ~10-year lifespan of a trailer, any price impact of AD/CVD duties would be negligible.
Unlike many other industries impacted by unfair trade practices, American trailer manufacturers still have the capacity to meet U.S. trailer demand here in the U.S. Thus, these duties would not cause a shortage or consequent upheavals in pricing.
This is about saving tens of thousands of U.S. jobs.