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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 17.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-weight: 700" class="">USW Supports Interim Arrangement with EU on Section 232
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">(Pittsburgh) </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">– </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic" class="">United Steelworkers (USW) International President Tom Conway issued the
following statement today in response to the announcement that the United States and European
Union had reached an interim arrangement on Section 232 steel and aluminum relief measures:
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">Steel and aluminum are the backbone of our n</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">ation’s </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">defense and critical infrastructure, but for
too long, global overcapacity and targeted predatory practices have undermined domestic
production and employment.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“That’s why the USW backed the Section 232 relief measures the Department of Commerce
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">initiated years ago and why our union now supports the interim arrangement between the United
States and the European Union.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">This new arrangement, which will maintain but modify Section 232 measures on steel and
aluminum from the EU, will create a framework that will ensure U.S. domestic industries remain
competitive and able to meet our security and infrastructure needs.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“It will also provide a much</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">-needed opportunity to address the non-market predatory practices of
China and other countries that have distorted global markets, while also spurring a dialogue over
climate concerns stemming from countries whose industries are far more carbon intensive than
those in the United States and the EU.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">Under this arrangement, the United States will allow a basic overall level of steel imports,
which will measure less than those that came from the EU in 2017 and 2018. Above this level,
imports will be subject to a 25 percent tariff. The deal creates certainty both for domestic
producers of steel and users who are unable to find domestic supplies.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">Through this arrangement, the Biden administration also closed a gaping loophole through
which steel imports that are often carbon intensive and from countries still subject to the original
232 measures reach the United States.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">Right now, semi-finished steel items like slabs and other products from China, Russia, Ukraine
and elsewhere are shipped into the EU, subjected to limited transformation and then qualified as
being of EU origin.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">“Under t</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">he interim arrangement, steel imports from the EU must entirely be produced in the
European Union, commonly known as </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">‘</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">melted-and-poured.</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">’ </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'" class="">This will help ensure European and
U.S. steelworkers are not losing jobs to countries outside this agreement.
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