Aluminum Association Calls On Trump Administration To Continue Section 232 Exemptions For Mexico And Canada
The Aluminum Association published an open letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthiser on Thursday seeking to convince the Trump...
One of the biggest metalworkers’ unions on the North American continent said late last week that the rumored imposition of tariffs on Canadian aluminium exports to the United States would make a “mockery” of the principles underlying the pending United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement...
The Aluminum Association published an open letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthiser on Thursday seeking to convince the Trump...
The debate raged last week among aluminium industry movers and shakers regarding the propriety of reinstating Section 232 tariffs on...
The Aluminum Association lauded the decision earlier this week by the United States Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) “to...
The Aluminum Association lauded the work done so far by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro, and various members of Congress in working to achieve the ratification of the new U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) last week. However, the Association warned that the new agreement would require effective enforcement, […]
The governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico concluded 14 months of trade tensions on Friday with the announcement of deals to eliminate the Section 232 blanket tariffs on aluminium and steel imposed by the Trump Administration over a year ago. The new agreements, which do not impose import quotas on aluminium and steel, […]
According to a report prepared by the United States Trade Representatives’ office, automotive aluminium and steel stand to benefit from a US$600-million surge over the next five years under the newly-negotiated United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Citing sources provided it by U.S. automakers, the report hones in upon the USMCA’s updated rules of origin as it concerns […]
The Mexican government formally requested relief from the Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel from the United States government late last week according to the country’s economic secretary. Secretary of the Economy Graciela Marquez Colin said Monday that she made the request of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in the course of the […]
As an accord has already been reached on the new trade agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland expressed her opinion that the leverage given Washington, D.C. by the Section 232 aluminium and steel tariffs is no longer needed. Speaking to reporters late last week in the U.S. […]
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