A major producer of aluminum wanted to identify opportunities in the automotive structural components businesses. During the project, the team analyzed specific automotive components, their alternate manufacturing materials (aluminum, ADI, cast iron, carbon steel, etc.) and processes (castings, forgings, etc.), the preferences of OEMs for the variations in performance of these parts, and then projected the outlook for the use of aluminum forgings or castings in automotive structural parts.
Calculating damages in IEEPA tariff refund litigation
But it did not resolve a harder question: Who bore their economic cost? That distinction is now driving two parallel waves of private litigation: commercial...