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Podcast Ep. 4: What the USS Gabrielle Giffords Means to the Aluminum Industry
Now that the New Year has begun, we’re getting ever closer (hopefully) to the Commerce Department’s final recommendations on the Section 232 investigation.
Today we continue our podcast series that we’re calling “Manufacturing Trade Policy Confidential,” in which we turn our focus to the aluminum industry. Our guest is Heidi Brock, the president and CEO of the Aluminum Association, whom we spoke with just before the winter holidays. She works tirelessly on behalf of the association’s members, which span the entire value chain. Heidi does find moments, however, to take a step back and see the bigger picture.
Recently, she got to see the newly commissioned USS Gabrielle Giffords, a warship named after the former Arizona congresswoman, and it left her with a sense of awe. “I just can’t tell you what an amazing experience it was,” she said.
To hear more on what a strong domestic aluminum sector has to do with national security, and how the aluminum sector views other hot trade issues of the moment and why, listen in to Lisa Reisman’s conversation with Heidi Brock.
Here’s Heidi in front of the U.S. Navy littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords:
For an additional sense of scale, here’s an “aerial view of the ship during its launch sequence at the Austal USA shipyard, Mobile, Alabama,” according to Wikipedia, from a photo provided by the U.S. Navy:
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