The Aluminum Association released a new white paper highlighting progress made one year after the Commerce Department’s final application of AD/CVD orders on imports of certain aluminum foil from China.

ARLINGTON, VA -- The Aluminum Association today released a joint letter with the Aluminium Association of Canada and IMEDAL calling for the administration to reinstate quota-free exemptions from the aluminum tariffs for Canada and Mexico before the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is implemented.

The full text of the letter is below. You can download a pdf of the letter here.

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Time to Remove Tariffs on Vital Trading Partners, Renew Focus on China  

In a letter to Treasury Department Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the Aluminum Association called on the administration to continue its focus on addressing “market-distorting forces, including subsidies and state-owned enterprises” in its ongoing trade negotiations with China. 

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