Trade Cases
October 17, 2017
Auto Council Challenges Commerce Report
Written by Sandy Williams
The American Automotive Policy Council is challenging data that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross cited in his bid to raise the NAFTA auto rules of origin.
In a September report, Ross used data from 1995 to 2011 in an effort to “debunk the claim that U.S. content in the form of parts is so high that we shouldn’t worry about headline gross-deficit figures.” AAPC did its own analysis of the data and identified several “significant problems and inconsistencies:”
