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B.C. 's sole aluminum smelter, located in Kitimat , is in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump ’s tariff war.
The economics all comes down to the cost of electricity, economist John Steen says.
Canada exported some 2.7 million tonnes of primary aluminum to the United States in 2024 , about 75 per cent of America 's aluminum imports.
Trump 's stated goal with the tariffs is to coerce industrial companies — auto manufacturers, steel mills, aluminum.
Smelters are still multi-billion-dollar , complicated mega projects that take years to build.
Rio Tinto spent $6 billion rebuilding its Kitimat smelter in the 2010s .
Company executive Jerome Pécresse said tariffs will be passed on to customers, but in the longer term, it will look to sell its product elsewhere.
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