ISRI’s Joe Pickard to serve on major US advisory committee

United States – Joe Pickard, chief economist and director of commodities at the US Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), has been selected to represent the US scrap industry in the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Building Materials, Construction, and Nonferrous Metals.

Industry Trade Advisory Committees are joint partnerships between the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the US Department of Commerce. They bring together business leaders in order to develop US trade policy regarding their respective industries.

‘I’ll be delighted to serve as a liaison between the scrap industry, the Commerce Department and the Office of the US Trade Representative on non-ferrous-related trade issues,’ comments Pickard. ‘Promoting the free trade of scrap commodities is critical to our industry and I’m very much looking forward to helping ISRI members convey their trade-related issues and concerns to these key government officials.’

According to ISRI, non-ferrous metals including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc and nickel scrap together accounted for US$ 6.7 billion of the US$ 21 billion worth of scrap commodities exported from the USA in 2014. ISRI points out that its president, Robin Wiener, serves on the US Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Steel.