Twenty-two of the most senior of the participants then continued on to do a Training of Trainers course, whichincluded the production of a Trainers manual.
The company later issued a statement in which it said it was working closely with health and safety agencies and had taken a number of actions whichincluded increasing security and halting production.
Attendees in Shanghai included a production executive at Nike's close-by Suzhou Sports subsidiary, which makes the rigid plastic support of its shoe's sole using Huntsman's diphenylmethane diisocyanate, or MDI.
Section 199 is part of the domestic production activities deduction that was included in the American Job Creation Act of 2004, which passed with strong bipartisan support, especially in the Senate.