Congressional Steel Caucus in Letter to Trump Calls for Broad Application of Section 232 Remedies
Congressional Steel Caucus leaders Tim Murphy, R-Pa., and Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., led a letter to President Donald Trump calling for broad and lengthy application of any Section 232 remedies for the steel industry, Murphy’s office announced June 28 (here). Any…
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remedy should also avoid exceptions that could be exploited by foreign producer dumping or duty circumvention, the lawmakers wrote. “The domestic steel industry’s ability to provide material to the military, electrical steel for the grid or drilling equipment for the energy industry may be fatally undermined if foreign countries and producers are allowed to destroy other lines of business that are critical to American steel producers’ economic viability,” Reps. Murphy and Visclosky said. “Taking away one or two legs of a chair makes the entire platform unusable. A remedy must encompass the entirety of the American steel industry in order to safeguard our national security.” The letter was also sent to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Defense Secretary James Mattis. Ross has a self-imposed deadline of June 30 to announce any remedial actions pursuant to his department's ongoing national security investigation into steel imports.