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Article: United States: Buy American could sink $1.4 million contract for local business.
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- November 9, 2009
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Byline: deepak03
A Cambridge manufacturer could lose a $1.4-million contract to supply materials for a California water project because of the controversial Buy American trade policy.
And the setback couldn t come at a worse time for Cambridge Brass Inc., which has had to lay off nearly half its workforce this year in the face of one of the worst economic downturns in history.
It s the latest example of a Canadian company being burned by a U.S. protectionist stance that bars foreign made goods in an effort to rejuvenate its own economy.
I ve lost a lot of sleep over this, said Greg Bell, the company s vice-president of sales and ...