Trade Cases
October 31, 2016
AISI Details Foreign Trade Barriers That Harm US Steel Producers
Written by Sandy Williams
AISI, Washington, D.C. (Oct. 27, 2016) – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) today submitted comments to the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) on USTR’s 2017 National Trade Estimate Report (NTE) on Foreign Trade Barriers. This submission marks the fifth year in a row that AISI has documented the foreign trade barriers that distort global trade for the NTE and are extremely harmful to U.S. companies, particularly those in the steel industry in the United States.
The 60-page document, signed by Kevin Dempsey, AISI’s senior vice president of public policy & general counsel, identifies significant trade barriers and other trade-distorting practices that limit the competitiveness of major U.S. companies. The comments were submitted to TPSC, the inter-agency task force that will review these comments for compilation in the 2017 National Trade Estimate (NTE) report released by USTR. Link to AISI’s full comments to USTR can be found here.
