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Alcoa warns Trump’s aluminum tariff could cost 100,000 US jobs

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Aluminum giant Alcoa said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s plan to impose a tariff on aluminum imports could cost about 100,000 jobs across the United States.

“We view (tariffs) as bad for the U.S.,” Bill Oplinger, CEO of the Pittsburgh-based company, told the BMO Global Metals & Mining Conference in Florida. Oplinger’s remarks were webcast.

(Reporting by Ernest Scheyder)

 

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