CHRISTOPHER TRACI

Policies to promote domestic superabrasives production capacity; Assessment of potential federal support for location of new facilities

Manufacturing, workforce, and domestic content issues in climate change, energy efficiency, and infrastructure legislation, including Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44), and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Implementation of Executive Order 14057 (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability); Funding for Environmental Product Declarations and other issues related to federal Buy Clean implementation in legislation including the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Energy and Climate Legislation including the PROVE IT Act of 2023 (S. 1863); Treatment of steel in Buy Clean pilot programs funded by The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (P.L. 117-169); Policies to promote the use of domestic materials in offshore wind projects

Policies to encourage increased energy efficiency in manufacturing, including the Job Creation Through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act; Efforts to promote U.S. Manufacturing Sector; Issues surrounding the development of critical infrastructure manufacturing base and importance of manufacturing to national security; Buy America policies and implementation of such polices, and funding levels, for infrastructure programs, including the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, Water Infrastructure Financing and Innovation Act program, Rural Utilities Service, and Community Development Block Grant program in bills including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169), and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (PL 117-328); Treatment of aluminum and other manufactured products in Buy America policies in legislation including the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 and potential infrastructure legislation; Implementation of Executive Order 14005 (Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of Americas Workers), Executive Order 14008 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad), Executive Order 14017 (Americas Supply Chains), and Executive Order 14057, (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability); Implementation of melted and poured standard for steel under Buy America; Legislative efforts to promote the rebuilding and expansion of infrastructure and promoting the use of domestically produced materials; Policies to promote use of domestic materials in offshore wind projects; Implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act title of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44); Implementation of domestic content preferences in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Treatment of aluminum and alumina in implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (PL 117-169); Policies to promote union employment in semiconductors, batteries and superabrasives supply chains; Efforts to ensure that Nippon Steels proposed acquisition of domestic steel making assets is properly reviewed by the federal government; Implementation of 45X and 48c tax credits; Federal support for development of energy-efficiency improvement projects in aluminum smelting

Trade law enforcement; Workers' Rights in international trade; Trade issues relating to surge in importation of steel and aluminum products into the United States; Treatment of Chinese overcapacity in steel, aluminum, paper and other industrial sectors; Section 232 investigations of the impact of steel and aluminum imports on national security, implementation of relief measures and potential legislative efforts to curtail Presidential authority and negotiations with the European Union on possible adjustment measures; Support for Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act; Support for Rapid Response Mechanism Workers Rights cases under the USMCA; Labor and manufacturing issues in the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity; Labor and manufacturing issues in the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade; Proposals to address circumvention and evasion of existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders, including the Fighting Trade Cheats Act of 2023 (S. 805/H.R. 2667); Ensure that statutory test regarding Vietnams Non-Market Economy Status is strictly applied regarding the pending changed circumstances review; Support for Trade Adjustment Assistance Renewal; Policy Discussions regarding Generalized System of Preferences Renewal; Support for action under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to address Chinese Transportation, logistics, and maritime policies and their impact on domestic production and employment; Development of carbon border adjustment mechanisms and other trade tools to main domestic manufacturing production while driving decarbonization; Support for the Level the Playing Field Act (S. 1856/H.R. 3882); Addressing surge of steel and aluminum imports from Mexico; Support for Administrations increase of tariffs on Chinese exports of steel and aluminum products; Opposition to proposal to dramatically expand authority for Japanese shipyards to repair and maintain U.S. naval vessels considered to be homeported under U.S. law; Support for retention of Section 301 tariffs against China; Support efforts to reform U.S. de minimis law and policy; Support for AD/CVD case against four Southeast Asian countries for dumping of solar products; Treatment of critical minerals in potential Critical Minerals Agreements

Identification of sourcing policies regarding supply of uranium from Russia; Treatment of uranium mining and recovery as part of the National Defense Authorization Act; Support for uranium extraction projects to be eligible for financing under the front-end nuclear category

National and homeland security implications of declining manufacturing base; Issues surrounding the development of critical infrastructure manufacturing base; Implementation of Executive Order 14005 (Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of Americas Workers), Executive Order 14008 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad), Executive Order 14017 (Americas Supply Chains), and Executive Order 14057, (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability); Buy America policies and implementation of such polices, and funding levels, for infrastructure programs, including the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, Water Infrastructure Financing and Innovation Act program, Rural Utilities Service, and Community Development Block Grant program in bills including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL117-169), and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (PL 117-328); Treatment of ductile iron utility poles in disaster and mitigation legislation; Legislative efforts to promote the rebuilding and expansion of infrastructure and promoting the use of domestically produced materials; Implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act title of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44); Implementation of domestic content preferences in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169)

MCWANE, INC.

UNITED STEELWORKERS

ALLIANCE FOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING

WORLDWIDE SUPERABRASIVES LLC

CENTURY ALUMINUM COMPANY

RIO GRANDE RESOURCES CORPORATION

CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.

UNITED STEELWORKERS

CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.

MCWANE, INC.

CENTURY ALUMINUM COMPANY

RIO GRANDE RESOURCES CORPORATION