Peter Navarro claims aluminium makers in Australia are undermining the US. Are they really?

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Donald Trump’s trade adviser made several targeted critiques of Australia’s manufacturing industry in comments that may undermine Canberra’s bid to get an exemption from the US’s new steel and aluminium tariffs.

In a USA Today opinion piece that was shared by the White House, Peter Navarro wrote that Australia – and Canada – were waging “frontal assaults” on the US’s aluminium market.

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