ADE: Congress candidates talk trade: China, Canada, etc.

"If we're going to put people back to work, we need to make sure the ground is fertile for companies to create products in the United States and sell them to our trading partners around the world," he said in a press release. "That means enacting policies to ensure countries like China are playing by the rules. As it stands, China simply is not acting in good faith, which hinders growth opportunities for business and puts American jobs at risk."

Owens co-sponsored the Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act, which he said would treat "currency undervaluation as a prohibited export subsidy.