Trade Issues
Steel-related trade disputes and actions, including antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
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OECD Steel Committee: Excess Capacity, Trade Friction Cloud Outlook for Global Steel Industry
22 December 2014 - The following is a statement from Risaburo Nezu, chairman of the OECD Steel Committee, issued after a meeting on 12 December 2014.
U.S. Wire Rod Producers Applaud Decision in Trade Case vs. China
19 December 2014 - The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) made a final determination that foreign producers of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod are causing injury to U.S. producers.
USW Raises Concerns about WTO Decisions on U.S. Countervailing Duty Measures
18 December 2014 - United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard has expressed deep concern with the WTO Appellate Body and especially its continuing interference in the administration of U.S. trade remedy laws through interpretations of WTO agreements.
Agency Vote Determines U.S. Industry Injured by Wire Rod Imports from China
15 December 2014 - The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) determined that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from China that the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has determined are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value.
Trade Law Group Voices Concerns Over WTO Decision in India Hot Rolled Steel Dispute
15 December 2014 - The Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws (CSUSTL), a broad coalition committed to preserving U.S. unfair trade laws, expressed serious concerns regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body report issued on 8 December 2014 in India's challenge of a U.S. countervailing duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products.
AISI Criticizes WTO Decision on Cumulative Assessment of Dumped and Subsidized Imports
08 December 2014 - The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) had strong words against a recent ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body, which upheld an earlier panel decision that ruled against the U.S. practice of cumulatively assessing the impact of dumped and subsidized imports when determining injury in trade cases.
U.S. Steel Industry Group Provides Comments on China's Trade Barriers
01 December 2014 - The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) is urging the U.S.’s highest ranking trade officials to bring up the critical steel issues of China’s currency manipulation, overcapacity and non-market economy status when they meet with Chinese officials at the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) on16–18 December in Chicago.
USW Applauds ITC for Continuing Investigation of Welded Line Pipe from Korea and Turkey
01 December 2014 - The United Steelworkers (USW) union said that the International Trade Commission (ITC) took the correct action in voting to continue investigating antidumping and countervailing duties on welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey.
U.S. Agency Votes to Continue Trade Cases on Welded Line Pipe
28 November 2014 - The United States International Trade Commission determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of certain welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey that are allegedly subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
U.S. Steel Industry Applauds Wire Rod Imports Decision
21 November 2014 - The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) applauded a recent decision by the Department of Commerce (DOC) to impose duties on wire rod from China.
AK Steel Wins Trade Cases on Non-Oriented Electrical Steel
20 November 2014 - AK Steel reported that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) reached an affirmative (4-1) final determination that the domestic industry producing non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) is materially injured by reason of dumped and subsidized imports from six countries.
ITC Rules Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from Six Countries Injures U.S. Industry
14 November 2014 - The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) determined that the U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) from China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan that the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined are sold in the United States at less than fair value and are subsidized by the governments of China and Taiwan.
Steel Industry Group Provides Comments on Foreign Trade Barriers
07 November 2014 - The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) told the trade arm of the federal government that existing “foreign trade barriers distort international trade and are extremely harmful to U.S. companies,” especially those in the steel industry.
USW Joins Petition for Duties on Welded API Line Pipe Imports
27 October 2014 - The United Steelworkers (USW) union has joined a petition calling on the U.S. Commerce Department (DOC) and International Trade Commission (ITC) to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on welded API line pipe imports from South Korea and Turkey.
U.S. Electrical Steel Producers to Appeal Decision in Trade Case
24 October 2014 - U.S. producers of grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) will file an appeal of the negative decision on "material injury" by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
U.S. Agency Rules Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from Four Countries Not Injuring U.S. Industry
24 October 2014 - The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) determined that a U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of imports of grain-oriented electrical steel from China, Czech Republic, Korea, and Russia that the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined are sold in the U.S. at less than fair value and from China that the DOC has determined are subsidized.
Steel Institute Applauds Decision to Revoke Russian Steel Agreement
22 October 2014 - The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) applauded the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) decision to revoke the outdated “suspension agreement” with Russia, which has prevented antidumping duties from being imposed on imports of hot-rolled steel from that country to the U.S.
Steel Institute Applauds Rebar Imports Decision
16 October 2014 - The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) issued the following statement on behalf of its U.S. producer members regarding the affirmative determination by the International Trade Commission (ITC) on rebar imports:
Import Duties to be Placed on Rebar from Mexico, Turkey After U.S. Agency Vote
15 October 2014 - The United States International Trade Commission determined that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Mexico that are sold in the United States at less than fair value and from Turkey that are subsidized by the government of Turkey.
Steel Institute Testifies to China's Failed WTO Compliance
02 October 2014 - Upon joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) nearly 13 years ago, China pledged to liberalize its economy and bring its trading practices more in line with international norms but evidence shows that China continues to operate as a state capitalist regime, said Kevin Dempsey, senior vice president of public policy for the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), in testimony on 1 October 2014 to the interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC), headed by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).
