The Canadian steel industry is the pain of the fare. Aluminum? Not so much star-news.press/wp

On-On-Once again, talk to the Rates of Canada products, they are selling in the United States, Jérôme Pécresse He has advice for his industry: “Be patient, stay, be light.”

Pécresse is the General Manager of Aluminio for Rio Tinto, Supervision of Canadian Canadian exploitation of the company.

Although most of the Pécresss are based on the Pécresse, he visited Kitimat to Kitimat, in the north coast of BC, and Rio Tinto Aluminum Smelter includes 1,100 people with more than 8,000 people.

But, Pécrress said, because no one in the community should worry about losing the work.

Stainless steel producers say they already feel threatening threats to imapCT, their aluminums remain relatively sanguine.

“Obviously it’s concern,” Pécress said, talking to CBC Daybreak North The host of Carolina de Ryk, saying that the markets would rather stability. But he also emphasized that other aluminum countries selling to the United States are getting the same rates, the Canadian position remains strong.

“If everyone is the same, it is probably something that doesn’t change our volumes … in the US market.”

Pécresse’s confidence in numbers: In the U.S. trade in Canada, the United States is a dependency in the United States. The US imports more than many Canadian aluminums to Canadian aluminum. According to World Bank data, the US is the largest aluminum importer in the world, with the bulk from its northern neighbor.

And the US-based buyers know: Jean Simard’s General Manager of the Canadian Aluminio Association has said that most Canadian and U.S. contracts agreed to pay the American company in Canada.

In fact, when Trump established aluminum rates, when Canadian companies saw its value, a person in the industry describes the President “check a 600 million aluminum producers,” approximately millions of half around.

In addition, the US doesn’t have much to choose from home production: Calculate the only Canadian Smelter to calculate the total departure of the USA industry equals.

A reason for this is the cost of electricity in the United States compared to Canada, is a key component. Quebec and the cheap bck hydroredo have the opportunity to run their plants, no US producers.

Mario Simard and Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, Bloc Québécois Miles with thousands of aluminum jobs, He said to radio Canada Canadian hydroelectric advantage cannot be easily repeated.

“The dam cannot be folded,” Simard said in a French interview. “It can’t be placed in a suitcase, moved to the south border.”

Brunelle-Ducppe said it was difficult to understand that he hoped to win the US based on the US aluminum.

“Aluminum smiles close to the United States, in fact, because it costs too much energy,” French said.

This feeling has echoed the US aluminum producers, including Pittsburgh Based Alcoa, which also acts in Canada. Oplinger was the General Manager Mentioned by Reuters A warned Mining Congress awaits the rates to cost approximately 20,000 jobs in the US aluminum industry.

“It’s bad for American staff,” said Oplinger, adding that it is lobbied for an exception to Canada aluminum. The United States said without cheaper electricity, there is no further competition for this aluminum industry in the country, as well as more rates.

In Kitimat, Pécrress said Rio Tinto has easy access to Asian markets through the port of Rupert Prince.

This means no one will be affected by any aluminum rates. Like steel, aluminum is passed back and forth in the production of products such as cars or building materials. As a result, fares will increase the end price for consumers. And companies that sell or buy aluminum products will also be conducted by cross-border sales, such as beer cans and covers, using Canadian aluminum and then BC beers were imported across the border.

But for those involved in the production of aluminum itself, industrial managers say that it should be business as usual.

“With the current situation, it is not affected by our work, and is not affected by our investment,” said Pécress. “We don’t stop.”