Trade Cases
May 21, 2018
Coalition Suggests Improvements for Exclusion Guidelines
Written by Sandy Williams
Metal manufacturers and users are calling the Section 232 product exclusion process “onerous” and “chaotic.” The Coalition of American Metal Manufacturers and Users expressed their concern about the tariff exclusion process in a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on May 18. More than 8,200 exclusion requests have been filed with Commerce with no approvals granted and only a fraction of those requests posted online.
The coalition represents over 30,000 companies and more than one million workers in the manufacturing sector and downstream supply chain in a wide variety of industries. CAMMU offered Ross reasons why the tariffs should be eliminated and, in lieu of that, how the exclusion process should be revised to streamline the process and improve transparency.
