New coalition opposes Section 232 restrictions on transformer components

An alliance of companies in the transformer industry has been formed to oppose national security-based restrictions on key components. The Core Coalition, which includes companies that use transformers as well as transformer components in manufacturing, was formed in response to the Commerce Department’s Section 232 investigation into imports of “laminations for stacked cores for incorporation into transformers, stacked cores for incorporation into transformers, wound cores for incorporation into transformers, and electrical transformers and transformer regulators.” The probe was launched in...