Not all metals are created equal, and neither are all tariffs. This independent economic analysis performed by Dr. Adam S. Hersh, research fellow at the University of Massachusetts, focuses on the acute national security need to maintain a viable domestic aluminum industry. It finds that national security-based tariffs on aluminum and derivative products under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 can work and are working to underpin revitalization of the U.S. aluminum industry.
