Steel tariffs, auto parts industry to reduce

Presented a number of vehicles in the United States from the high tariffs, which the Bush administration for the special requirements and almost all of the companies have agreed to waive the first a range of Layer 3 manufacturer of small-scale producers.

Automotive and Equipment Manufacturers Association (also known as Mema), taking into account the possibility of a large number of unemployed workers has become a current instruction to expand the key factor in excluding the second grade and continue to come toPrice and supply of steel products, as part of its decisions' of the.

Although the Mema vulnerable to the U.S. steel industry is currently supported and their customs have a strong auto parts suppliers the negative impact of the Mema 克里斯贝茨 president has. The proposed restrictions and the prices are usually higher steel tariffs is needed now an automotive supplier to start creating or buying components that they previously created andPurchased from foreign sources.

What Mema claim, a trend of increase in response to steel tariffs in order to reduce the production and movement of some manufacturing facilities permanently abroad reflected. Mema also claimed that sports facilities and staff transferred to other countries, prices remain unchanged is growing rapidly.

Automotive parts suppliers manufacturers do not benefit from this process in the first round ofExclusion, and supervision to the Ministry of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative Office, a office.Taking the fact that the U.S. auto parts manufacturers to achieve 95 per cent from the U.S. steel prices, they did not feel relief from the exclusion of the management procedures adopted by the guidelines.

This process is primarily to buy steel products from abroad, which are not established, or from a professional mold described in the U.S. market. United States --Iron and steel manufacturers have reached the panels and flat steel products, preferential prices exclude imports first tour, while the steel to win the minimum burden on customers. In addition, the United States from other countries, control of the market competitors to purchase regular price and export of finished or semi-finished steel products to lower the price of production.

Mema claim strongly that the threat of the impact of high steel prices, a possibility is better than the U.S.No production centers of raw materials and cost structure of the security and stability of supply, the U.S. auto parts makers will not be able to save for future action and to ensure its competitive position in the global automotive industry, Mema claims.

Mema will continue to serve as a strong supporter of the House of Representatives resolution, the representatives of September 9 Cono Shellenberger 10. The legislation, which is just the first 107, the two sides have won the support of Congress PartyAnd again in the introduction of

House Disan Qian ○ III, Knollenberg's asked the President to require verification of the resolution, the International Trade Commission, the United States tariffs on steel-consuming industry, the impact should be

The current analysis is that the U.S. International Trade Commission, Steel management plan, the plan will be published in September 2003 mid-term evaluation should be included, said: "Mema.