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June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee Mr. Chair, members of the committee, clerk, fellow witnesses, thank you for the opportunity to appear today and to contribute to the committee's work on this important issue. My name is Robert Dimitrieff, and I am the president of Patriot Forge, the largest open die steel-forging
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee The nature of our industry is that we serve sectors such as power generation, nuclear power, aerospace or defence, and other places that have critical applications where parts have to be particularly robust. Part of what's required is 100% traceability and a lot of detail about t
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee Yes. Definitely, I would agree that investment in technology and things can be done to make our industries and players in them more competitive with American operators. At Patriot we're doing those on our own. We haven't applied for funding through that program yet, although we'
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee Well, my—
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee Ninety per cent of my product ships to the United States.
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee It depends on the product, but many of them are.
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee Yes. In the context of power generation, with gas or steam turbine and generator components, three major OEMs in the world make those things. For strategic decisions I fly to Japan or Germany to get the orders, but I ship my product to Georgia or to North Carolina. I'll be paying
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee I don't want to pretend I know everything about the larger context of what's going on, but certainly it would seem to me that if Canada and the United States had close, if not mirroring, regulations on how things coming into North America would be tariffed or impacted, it should
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff
International Trade committee I don't know. I'm not aware of those details.
June 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Robert Dimitrieff