Japan aluminium industry calls on Trump to rethink tariffs plan

Tokyo

JAPAN'S aluminum industry is calling on President Donald Trump to rethink his plan to levy a 10 per cent tariff on all imports of the metal, saying the action would hurt the country's sales and could spill over into other industries, triggering a rise in global protectionism.

"Our biggest concern is that individual producers in this country will lose business," Yoshihisa Tabata, executive director of the Japan Aluminium Association, said in an interview …