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Trump rejects Commerce finding that uranium imports threaten national security

July 13, 2019 at 12:14 PM
President Trump on Friday said he disagreed with the Commerce Department’s conclusion that uranium imports threaten U.S. national security, and created a working group to study the nuclear fuel supply chain instead of imposing trade restrictions. Commerce submitted the results of its Section 232 investigation on uranium imports in April. Two U.S. uranium producers petitioned Commerce to launch the investigation in January 2018 and Commerce kicked off the probe in July 2018. According to a White House memo , Commerce...


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