Message to President-elect Joe Biden: Keep steel tariffs in place
Published 13th January, 2021 by Matthew Moggridge
President-elect Joe Biden: Will he preserve Trump s steel tariffs?
Four of the leading US-based domestic steel industry associations and the United Steelworkers union have urged President-elect Joe Biden to ensure steel tariffs and quotas, put in place in 2018 to protect national security, are preserved.
In a letter to the president-elect, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA), the United Steelworkers union (USW), The Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports (CPTI) and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), urged that, “Continuation of the [steel] tariffs and quotas is essential to ensuring the viability of the domestic steel industry in the face of this massive and growing excess steel capacity. Removing or weakening of these measures before major steel producing countries eliminate their overcapacity – and
Steel industry and union groups on Monday urged President-elect Joe Biden to keep in place the 25% national security tariffs on steel imports imposed in 2018 by his predecessor, arguing they are essential to ensure the viability of domestic steel production. In a letter to Biden, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Steel Manufacturers .
The steel industry and United Steelworkers union are urging the new administration to maintain the steel tariffs of 25% on most foreign-made steel and quotas that were imposed in 2018
Steel industry and union groups on Monday urged President-elect Joe Biden to keep in place the 25% national security tariffs on steel imports imposed in 2018 by his predecessor, arguing they are essential to ensure the viability of domestic steel production.
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