Tom Dobbins, president & CEO of the Aluminum Association, released the following statement on potential changes to the Section 232 aluminum tariff program under the incoming Biden administration: 

Program Will Help Industry Stakeholders Better Track Aluminum Trade Flows

Following President-elect Joe Biden’s announcement today nominating Katherine Tai as the United States Trade Representative, Aluminum Association president & CEO Tom Dobbins released the following statement:
 

The Aluminum Association today applauded the Senate Committee on Appropriations for including funding for a new Aluminum Import Monitoring (AIM) system in its fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill. 

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) made a unanimous preliminary determination today that unfairly-traded imports of certain aluminum foil from five countries are causing injury to U.S. producers.

Commerce Department Finds Aluminum Sheet From 18 Countries Sold in U.S. at Unfairly Low Prices

The Aluminum Association’s Foil Trade Enforcement Working Group today filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions charging that unfairly traded imports of aluminum foil from five countries are causing material injury to the domestic industry. In April of 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce published antidumping and countervailing duty orders on similar foil products from China. 

Aluminum Association president & CEO Tom Dobbins issued the following statement in response to today’s announcement by the Office of the U.S. Trade  Representative (USTR) removing recently reimplemented tariffs on imports of unwrought, or P1020, aluminum from Canada into the United States.

The Aluminum Association released the following statement by Tom Dobbins, president & CEO, in response to the European Commission launching an antidumping investigation into certain flat-rolled aluminum products from China. This follows the European Commission’s initiation of a similar case earlier this year investigating the possible dumping of aluminum extrusions. 
 

Commerce Department Finds Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet from Bahrain, Brazil, India, and Turkey Benefiting from Government Subsidies