Two U.S. senators on April 16 unveiled a bipartisan proposal that seeks to strengthen domestic trade remedy laws and protect U.S. workers from what they called China’s “unfair trade practices.” Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced the Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act, saying in a statement that strengthening U.S. laws will ensure they remain “effective tools” to fight back against Beijing’s trade practices. The legislation will protect U.S. workers in industries that are important to the state of Ohio, Portman and Brown stated. The bill would establish a new concept of “successive investigations” to improve the effectiveness of the U.S. trade remedy system in responding to “repeat offenders and serial cheaters,” helping to level the playing field for U.S. workers. It also would help block steel overcapacity that leaves steelworkers and companies in the state at a competitive disadvantage, they stated. In the past …