Tracy Rudolph, the President of SSINA member company Electralloy, a G.O. Carlson, Inc. Company, testified on July 21, 2022 before the International Trade Commission (ITC) regarding the Commission’s Section 332 Investigation on the Economic Effect of Section 301 and 232 Tariffs.
Mr. Rudolph testified that the 7.5 percent Section 301 tariffs on imports of flat-rolled and long stainless steel products from China and the various remaining measures in place as a result of the section 232 investigation, have been critical to providing the specialty metals industry with relief from unfairly traded imports – particularly for those imports not under the discipline of antidumping or countervailing orders – and that the tariffs have had a positive economic impact on the U.S. specialty steel producers by helping to level the playing field. Mr. Rudolph further testified that removal of these tariffs would most likely benefit our economic and military adversaries in China and Russia and urged that the Section 301 and 232 tariffs remain vital to both U.S. national security and the U.S. specialty metals industry. Mr. Rudolph took questions from the Commission at the conclusion of his testimony.
Mr. Rudolph’s testimony can found here.
