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Standing at the Novelis factory in Oswego on April 16,2019, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer urged the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to expedite the review and approval of the company’s remaining product exclusion requests from aluminum tariffs that involve imports from Canada. Novelis, which is a top employer in Oswego County, employing over 1,100 people, is a major contributor to the Central New York economy and is seeking exclusions from the Section 232 tariffs that were implemented in March 2018.
Schumer said that while targeted tariffs on heavily subsidized aluminum imports from countries like China–which bends and breaks fair trade rules–can be effective, broad-based tariffs on good actors from partner countries like Canada are negatively impacting companies like Novelis that have an integrated supply chain between its North American facilities. Schumer will say that these tariffs have made Novelis’s New York operation less competitive and will demand that the federal government eliminate these poorly targeted tariffs completely. In the meantime, Schumer called on DOC and CBP to work through Novelis’s product exclusion requests ASAP, to protect Novelis and the Central New York economy from unwarranted damage.