Trump tariffs take aim at B.C. aluminum

After trade action in 2018, B.C. aluminum exports to the United States dropped by 50 per cent As the fourth-largest producer of aluminum in the world, Canada is justifiably worried about the economic impacts of 25-per-cent tariffs on steel and aluminum exports to the U.S. B.C. is also justifiably concerned as a producer of unwrought aluminum, though perhaps not as concerned as Quebec, which is Canada's largest aluminum producer, with eight of the country's nine aluminum smelters. At the time of writing, tariffs on U.S.-bound exports of both products will go into effect March 12. B.C. has no steel industry…