Steel State Senators Ask Commerce to Add Steel Assemblies to Tariff List
Ohio's two senators -- Rob Portman, a Republican, and Sherrod Brown, a Democrat -- and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., asked Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to add certain steel assemblies to the tariff list. Their March 8 letter was "on behalf…
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of AK Steel," the last domestic producer of grain-oriented electrical steel, the lawmakers said. That specialty steel is on the list, but "we are concerned unless you include a handful of additional tariff lines, foreign products that are essentially just electrical steel sheets stacked, wound and slit ... the remedy will be ineffective for electrical steel." A Commerce Department official said they are reviewing the request to add 8504.90.9634, laminations; 8504.90.9638, cores; and 8504.90.9642, core assemblies.