Sen. Portman Calls for Removal Of Steel, Aluminum Duties Against Mexico And Canada

Now that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has been worked out, the US needs to remove tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from Canada and Mexico as leaving them in place could jeopardize support for the deal with lawmakers, according to Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio."The notion is, OK, we have reached this agreement, painstaking as it was ... and now we are being asked to vote on it, but wondering whether we are going to have a second shoe drop," Portman said after remarks at the Heritage Foundation. "I think it would be better if we were just about to resolve those issues along with the revised NAFTA and know that what we are voting on is going to have the kind of predictability and stability we want."