As I said earlier, the horizontal remission of countertariffs on U.S. steel should be reinstated immediately until such time as the retaliatory tariffs are removed. That's fundamental in our view. The horizontal remission was abolished in January. That's our main recommendation.
Our position on countertariffs is that they should be limited as much as possible to finished products imported here when they compete with equivalent finished products made in Quebec or Canada. We want to shut out American competition, just like the U.S. is doing to us.
However, we want there to be as few countertariffs on semi-finished products and intermediate inputs as possible, because the countertariffs are hurting our processors. We're shooting ourselves in the foot by putting countertariffs on intermediate inputs.
