This strategic move by US President Joe Biden is to check the means of escaping the tariff levied on aluminium imports from China, Iran, Russia, and Belarus. To avoid paying the US tariff, these countries were transshipping their aluminium products through Mexico. Thus, the US administration has implemented an additional 10 per cent tariff on primary aluminium products smelted or cast in China, Iran, Russia, and Belarus and arriving via Mexico.
The Aluminum Association said this move was important to combat the impact of unfairly trade that had been in practice across North America.
