Global competitiveness of the US aluminium industry. Part I

摘要

The Committee on Ways and Means (Committee) of the US House of Représentatives asked the US International Trade Commission (Commission) in February 2016 to conduct an investigation and provide a report on factors af-fecting the global competitiveness of the US aluminium industry, which includes unwrought (primary and secondary) and wrought1 aluminium products. The recently released study examines production, consumption, trade, investment and competitiveness factors affecting unwrought and wrought aluminium dur-ing 2011-15. The Commission used three complementary approaches to evaluate competitiveness trends in the global aluminium industry: (1) qualitative research， including a hearing and fieldwork (domestic and foreign); (2) a survey of US aluminium producers; and (3) a quantitative analysis of the effects of various foreign governmenf p?licies. Some of the findings are published below, abridged and slightly edited.