Sens. Brown, Casey urge Raimondo to add electrical steel to 232 tariffs

The Commerce Department should add grain-oriented electrical steel to the Section 232 tariffs on steel, two Senate Finance Committee Democrats said this week, arguing that “unfair importation” of downstream products using this electrical steel endanger a key U.S. supply chain and producer. Grain-oriented electrical steel is an important input in transformers and was the subject of an investigation, conducted by the previous administration under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, on transformers and transformer inputs. In that...