International Trade committee  Unfortunately, I've spent way too much time in front of trade committees and tribunals. Hopefully, we can resolve that. Thank you for taking the time today. I'm pleased to be before the committee to help in this important task of examining North American and global steel trade i

International Trade committee  First off, it's one facility that we have closed in Welland.

International Trade committee  Our other facility is running. The problem is that he's sourcing steel out of Canada. Our market that we would supply out of that Welland plant is flooded with imports from Thailand, Vietnam and Korea. Until those imports disappear, we don't have any volume to open that plant.

International Trade committee  There are no tariffs on that product. There are none.

International Trade committee  The other thing I'd like to add is, yes, steel prices have increased, and there was an immediate shock to that. Remember, I'm a steel consumer, not a producer. We buy $450 million worth of steel a year in Canada. We're the largest steel buyer in Canada, larger than any automotive

International Trade committee  Yes, I sympathize with the gentleman. We buy directly from the mills, but our product is all dutiable from the U.S. Most of the steel we use is Canadian-sourced steel, so we're buying from Stelco, Algoma, and the like, and processing that and shipping it. I will tell you that th

International Trade committee  The primary manufacturers are in the United States. We're one of them, so our product is being shipped over to the Canadian consumer and being charged 25% duty, and the Canadian consumer is bearing that for really no reason. They couldn't access that product in Canada since it's

International Trade committee  Sure we can. Yes.

International Trade committee  We've put in exclusion requests for a product that isn't produced here, and there is some movement on it. We've obtained exclusions on certain products. At the end of the day, you don't want to cost the consumer money and make them uncompetitive, so we have achieved that. The p

International Trade committee  Sure. Look at the hot-rolled coil, cold-rolled coil or galvanized coil that floods into Canada. You should put a quota on that product category—not necessarily a country, but that product category. Let's say a million tonnes of hot rolled coil comes into this country, but we have

International Trade committee  Thank you, Tracey, and thanks for all of the work you've done for our company and our community. I'll give just one example. We know that beams aren't manufactured in Canada at all. When we did the Herb Gray Parkway, which was built in Windsor, 30,000 tonnes of piling for the fo

International Trade committee  Again, with respect to piling, we're not even in the business in Canada. These guys circumvent and bring it in from every country, and it's virtually unstopped, because they just change the country of origin or the product code. That's how they circumvent. It's the same on struc

International Trade committee  It depends on where they get their fabricated product. The government spent $3.5 billion buying a pipeline—great. Again, that's with my tax dollars and the gentleman from P.E.I.'s tax dollars, and now they're going to allow a company to hook up to that by bringing in imported fab

International Trade committee  The quota would have to go to the countries importing the products. Are you talking about the consumer in Canada accessing that quota?

International Trade committee  The consumer in Canada will have access to the product that's made in Canada. What's the difference? Wouldn't they buy Canadian product rather than imported product? If I could start up my plant, I'd have available product for them. They don't need to access that quota. I'll make