Aluminium Associations in the US, Europe, Canada and Japan urge G7 governments to take concrete steps to deliver more free, fair and open trade. The aluminium associations of the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan call on G7 governments to provide leadership in support of ambitious multilateral negotiations to discipline trade distorting government support and state ownership in industrial sectors. There is clear evidence today that existing multilateral subsidy rules are inadequate to remedy the scale and scope of state intervention in aluminium markets. The aluminium associations refer to a recently released report of the OECD, titled Measuring distortions in international markets: Below-market finance, which provides new insights across more than 300 firms in 13 industrial sectors. The analysis included 32 aluminium companies with a combined 70 share of the global market.
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