MONTREAL — Canada’s aluminium industry is speaking out against the U.S. administration’s 25 per cent tariffs, calling them unfair and highly disruptive.
“A 25 per cent tariff on our aluminium going to the U.S. will only hurt U.S. jobs, U.S. industries – including defence, automative, construction, and housing,” said Jean Simard, president and CEO of the Aluminium Association of Canada (AAC), in a statement. “At a time when you want to keep the price of everyday goods down, and ensure good American manufacturing jobs, a tariff will only drive prices higher – hurting Americans in their pocketbooks and undermining the agenda the U.S. government says it wants to achieve.”
According to the association, Canada’s 9,500 aluminium workers produce the metal that is processed, transformed and fabricated into parts, components and everyday products by more than 700,000 American manufacturing workers, generating more than $228 billion in economic output in the U.S. economy alone.
“Our economies are integrated because it makes sense, because it benefits workers, consumers, and communities on both sides of the border,” the association says. “As we have done in the past, industry and governments will work hand-in-hand to maintain our domestic aluminium industrial ecosystem, a 100-year-old plus legacy, contributing to our collective defence and economic security.”
The association highlighted that both countries must and should be focused on “unfair Chinese trading practices stemming from massive state subsidies on the entire aluminium ecosystem.
“Canada will not be a transshipment risk or a vector for trade practices that could harm our collective economic security,” the statement continues. “We have been working very closely with U.S. government and industry to align our trade tool kit to protect fortress North America, including the most recent implementation of 25 per cent surtax on imports of China’s aluminium products.”
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