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Aluminum Association Criticizes Smaller Trade Group Calling for Section 232 Tariffs on Canadian Aluminum
June 12, 2020 by Mara Lee|Commerce Dept.

The Aluminum Association, which represents 120 companies, including the largest U.S. smelter, Alcoa, is pushing back against a call for Canada to again be subject to Section 232 tariffs on the metal The American Primary Aluminum Association's letter to the U.S. Trade Representative asked for the return of a 10% tariff on Canadian aluminum. The group pointed to the closure of a Washington state Alcoa smelter as a reason to reimpose the tariffs.

More Comments Sought on Section 232 Tariffs for Downstream Electrical Steel Goods
June 10, 2020 |Commerce Dept.

The Commerce Department is allowing more time for comments on its new Section 232 investigation into transformer parts made from electrical steel, it said in a notice. Comments are now due July 3, and rebuttal comments are due July 24. The investigation (see 2005040059) follows years of complaints that companies could avoid 25% tariffs on electrical steel by buying assemblies of that kind of steel.

Aluminum Extruders Council Asks for End of Section 232 Tariffs on Aluminum
June 9, 2020 by Mara Lee|Commerce Dept.

The Aluminum Extruders Council pointed to the closure of Alcoa's Intalco Works in Ferndale, Washington, as proof that Section 232 is not helping the aluminum industry, and said that since there is no longer a source of domestic billets west of the Mississippi River, they have to import. But both domestic and foreign supply of aluminum billets is more expensive than it would be in other countries, so domestic extruders are at a price disadvantage. Exporters circumvent Section 232 -- which covers aluminum extrusions -- by doing further fabricating of the extrusions and classifying them under a subheading not covered in Section 232, the group said. “The truth is, no one is going to build primary aluminum production in the U.S. with or without the 232,” the group said in a June 9 press release. “It is time for the Administration to re-examine its policy in this area. We applaud their goal. We really do. However, the path they have taken has been proven to be ineffective, and ultimately counterproductive.”

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