A case involving a Teksid Hierro plant in Mexico concluded in favor of the workers after resorting to the USMCA’s Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM). To begin with, in May 2022, the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), the American Federation of Labor and Congress
The labor case of a Panasonic Automotive Systems facility under the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism of the Mexico-United States-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was successfully concluded. Initially, in April 2022, the Mexican union Sindicato Nacional Independiente de Trabajadores de Industrias y de Servicios Movimiento 20/32 (SNITIS) and a U.S.-based political
Cementos Pacasmayo, the largest cement company in northern Peru, will stop using imported clinker after increasing its production of this product. Clinker is a solid material that is produced in the manufacture of Portland cement as an intermediate product. During 2022, the company focused on developing a more
Steel mills in the United States manufacture a number of products that can be classified into general categories: flat, long, tube and semi-finished products. All of these products can be made from different types of steel (e.g., carbon, alloy and stainless). In terms of volume, flat and long
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) included a profile of the U.S. iron and steel industry as part of a report on tariffs imposed primarily on China. At the outset, it has been said that iron and steel are the base metals of any industrial society and are
Germany, the United States, China, South Korea and Japan were placed as the largest exporters of electric vehicles in the period from 2018 to 2021. Conversely, the largest importers of electric vehicles in that period were Germany, the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom and France, according to