Finance Committee leaders say Commerce exclusion process lacks fairness

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and ranking member Ron Wyden (D-OR) are demanding that the Commerce Department change its procedures for companies to request products be excluded from the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum because they lack “basic due process and procedural fairness for stakeholders.” In an April 19 letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Hatch and Wyden said “Several additional aspects of due process and procedural fairness in the product exclusion process appear to suffer...