Prime Minister Mark Carney in a Press Conference in OTTAWA on Thursday Said The Goovernment Will Attempt to Limit Steel Imports from Countries that Don’t Have a free-trade Agement with Canada to 2024 Levels.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a news conaint in ottawa on thursday, said the government will Attempt to Limit Steel Imports from Countries that donet Have Free-Trade Agreements With Canada to 2024 levels.
Canada Currently Has Such Agreements With 51 Countries, Including the United States, Mexico, The EuroPean Union, Australia and Japan. But China, India, Taiwan, Turkey and Russia, All Major Steel Producers, do not have trade deals with Canada. They have been accessable of Selling the Metal at an artificially Low PRICE to Gain Market Share, a Practice Known As Dumping.
If the Group of Countries that Don’t Have Free-Trade Agreements with Canada Exceds 2024 Steel Shipment Volumes, A 50-Per-Cent Tarif Will Apply.
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This was the first major Trade Announcement from MR. Carney’s Goovernment Since This Week’s G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta, where his office said he and mr. Trump Had Agreed to Work Toward a comprehensive trade and Security Deal Within 30 Days.
The Anti-Dumping Measors Target A Practice that is also an iRritant for us productions. MR. Trump, in JUSTIFYING A Recent Executive Order that Raised Steel Tarifs, said that foveign productions we still dumping the metal inte the US Market.
Where mr. Trump First Imposed 25-Per-Cent Tariffs on Canadian Steel and Aluminum Imports in March, OTTAWA RESPONDED by Imposition Across-The-Poard Reciproocal Tariffs on Imports from the Us But Canada subsequently Granted a Tarif Reprief on Some Products Coming from the US, Including Steel Used in Manufacturing and Processing.
MR. Carney on thursday said that Canada plans to adjust counttarifs on us steel and aluminum imps
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The Amount of Foreign Steel Coming Into Canada is Growing as a consequence of MR. Trump’s Tarifs. Since Overseas Productions Are Being Largely Shut out of the Us, they are more Agsssively Competing in Other Markets Such as in Canada.
“One of the consequences” said MR. Carney of MR. Trump’s Trade War Against Canada, “Is that Steel from Other Countries, From Third Countries, Starts to Come into Canada if we don’t protect our Industries.”
The Anti-Dumping initiatives on Countries with Free-Trade Agreements with Canada will “Stabilize the Domestic Market and Prevention Harmful Trade Diversion As the Result of the Us Actions, “The Federal Finance Ministry Said in a Press Release.
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The Canadian Steel Productions Association, Which Represents 17 Companies, Including Stelco, Picture, Has Repledly Advocated for Antidumping Duties to East the Impact of Us Tarifs.Cole Burton/AFP/Getty Images
The Canadian Steel Productions Association, Which Represents 17 Companies, Including Algoma Steel Group Inc. ASTL-T, Arcelleormttal Dofasco and Stelco, Has Repetedly Advocated For Ottawa to Impose Anti-Dumping Duces to Help Ease the Pain of the US Tariffs.
Algoma Steel Chief Executive Michael Garcia Has Argued that Foreign Mills from Countries with Trade Agreements With Canada, Such as China, India and Turkey, Regularly Dump Steel Into Canada, make it bainly imPossible for the company to compit in its home market.
But he’s aco fljikeducers from South Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam as Engaging in Dumping. Those countries Have Free-Trade Agreeme there with Canada and Won’t Be Affectated by ottawa’s New Trade Measures.
The Finance Ministry in Its Release SAID that More Tarif Measors are Coming in the Next Feges to Address Unfair Trade Practices that Will Focus on Individual Countries, Whiche Opens the Possibility that countries with free Trade Agreements may be targeted.
JEAN SIMARD, CEO OF The Aluminium Association of Canada, in a Press Release SAID that The Trade Action by the Goods And acceleraated negotations and uses a measeed approach thrive adaptive coument-tarifs and reciproocal procurement policies. ”
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Ottawa on thursday also said that, effective jun 30, it will light its steel and aluminum Purchases for Feder Infrastructure Projects to Domestic Productions and To Foreign Countries that Provide Reciproocal Access to Canadian Companies − Measors that Should Hel Create More Demand at Home.
Early Reaction from the Steel Industry on the Trade Measors Annouced by the Godnment wasnT as enthusiastic.
“IT Falls Short of What Our Industry Needs at this Most Challenge Time,“ Catterine Cobden, CEO OF of the Canadian Steel Productions Association and Marty Warren, National Director for Canada, UNIDOLWORKERS Union, SAID In A Joint Statement.
“We will Continue to Review the details of the measures and work constructively with the federal government to get a plan that works for canadian steel producers and the thusands of Workers That make up our select. ”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Who Spoke with MR. Carney on wedding, Told Reports at Queen’s Park on Thursday That He Supports The Prime Minister’s Imposition of Quotas on Steel Imports, as well as Adjusting Tariffs on Us Steel Imports if a trade deal isnt Struck with 30 days.
“I do you the Confident in the Prime Minister and his team to make forryd with these negotities,” He said, adding that MR. Carney Did A “Very, Vry Good Job” in Dealing with MR. Trump in A Short Time Frame.
With Reports from Nojoud Al Mallees, Laura Stone and Mark Rendell
