International Trade committee  As for the remissions, we belong to various Canadian associations: the CAMM association, CTMA and others. We've been working very closely with them. The remissions have already been applied to part of our products—maybe about one-third to about one-half of our products. We're here to be able to get the rest of our products on those remissions so that we can hang on a little longer.

International Trade committee  For us in Windsor, it's a tricky situation because we are seeing two things. We are seeing that programs are being lost from [Technical difficulty—Editor] and placed back into the U.S., but we are seeing a little bit of slowing in the industry itself. We've had a fairly good run in the auto industry, for probably seven years plus.

International Trade committee  Being a U.S. company, we figured we were probably kind of safe. We always touted it as that, but the fact that we've gotten into some little bit of trade wars here is huge, more so just on the Canadian side. Again, I started 15 years ago and the whole reason that Ellwood brought a distribution to Canada was to help the Canadians get a more direct pricing—take another distribution out of the middleman to be able to make us more competitive here in Canada and make our Canadian toolmakers and mould-makers here more competitive as well.

International Trade committee  I struggle a bit to answer that. With the OEMs, everybody has to go through an approval process. Whether it's a Canadian, U.S. or European manufacturer, all have to go through that process. The biggest part is becoming very competitive in the small market-type segment of building those specialty alloys.

International Trade committee  That is exactly what's happening with our Canadian customers. All the OEMs are very nervous about what's going to happen with their costs. They're placing programs in the U.S. with the competition, our Canadian competition.

International Trade committee  Absolutely.

International Trade committee  We're pretty much at a critical point. We really haven't brought a whole lot of steel in, yet we've paid probably over a quarter of a million dollars in tariffs just in these three months alone. The problem is that a lot of our customers rely on that steel base. As I said before, they have contracts with the big OEMs.

International Trade committee  Absolutely, which is starting to happen.

International Trade committee  It's one of the very many parts.

International Trade committee  Again, they make them for all cars. Transmission housings also go into trucks, just about any SUV, and even commercial vehicles and stuff like that.

International Trade committee  Good afternoon, Chairman and members of the international trade committee. On behalf of Ellwood Group, thank you for the opportunity to present our concerns on the impacts of the U.S. section 232 steel duties and the unintended consequences of Canada's response. My name is Dave Heath.