Representatives from Mount Vernon Mills in Trion and Frontier Spinning in Cedartown delivered a petition to officials in Rep. Phil Gingrey’s Rome office on Wednesday, expressing opposition to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.

The petition contained 1,241 signatures. Nationwide, more than 27,000 signatures have been collected in opposition to the agreement.

The delegation, led by Mount Vernon Mills Vice President and General Manager Don Henderson, wanted to make sure that the congressman gets the message that weak customs enforcement, along with immediate and unequal tariff phase-outs on competitive U.S. products, would cost 12,000 direct textile jobs and put 40,000 workers that make up the textile-industry supply chain at risk.

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