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Trade Issues
Steel-related trade disputes and actions, including antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
Latest News
EU Countries Approve Steel Safeguard Revisions
04 September 2019 - European Union governments have OK'd tighter restrictions on steel imports, lowering the threshold at which 25% duty on certain grades applies, the Reuters news service reports.
U.S. Government Opens Coated-Sheet Inquiry
15 August 2019 - The U.S. Commerce Department has self-initiated a circumvention inquiry into imports of corrosion-resistant sheet made in China or Taiwan, but finished in one of five countries.
ArcelorMittal Reconsiders Hot End Idling at Polish Mill
29 July 2019 - ArcelorMittal Poland said it will postpone the planned idling of the Krakow plant’s hot end as it re-evaluates its plans.
Commerce Department Puts New Tariffs on Certain Fabricated Construction Steels
09 July 2019 - The U.S. Commerce Department has set anti-subsidy duties on fabricated structural steel from China and Mexico.
U.S. Sets Preliminary Anti-Circumvention Duty on Certain Vietnamese Steels
08 July 2019 - The U.S. Department of Commerce is imposing new duties on certain cold-rolled and corrosion-resistant steels from Vietnam, arguing that exporters are trying to circumvent fair trade measures by routing substrate from Korea and Taiwan through Vietnam.
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Section 232 Challenge ... Yet
24 June 2019 - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to immediately hear a challenge to President Donald Trump’s Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs, ending a trade association’s effort to fast-track the case, but not the case itself.
Mittal: EU Must Take Further Measures in Wake of Steel Tariffs
13 June 2019 - ArcelorMittal chief executive Lakshmi Mittal says the European Union needs to further protect the domestic steel market from imports that are being deflected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s steel tariffs.
Citing Softening Demand, ArcelorMittal Furloughs Italian Workers
06 June 2019 - ArcelorMittal Italia is temporarily laying off approximately 1,400 workers amid weakening demand and heightened competition from imported steel, the company has announced.
Lifting Steel Tariffs Necessitates Continued Vigilance, SMA Says
20 May 2019 - The Steel Manufacturers Association hopes that the removal of the Section 232 tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel will clear the way for a new North American free trade agreement, but said that close monitoring of steel imports is still needed.
U.S. Nears Resolution to 232 Tariff Dispute With Canada, Mexico
15 May 2019 - U.S. negotiators are coming close to an agreement with Mexico and Canada on the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs, according to reports.
Report: U.S. Officials Might Be Close to Canada Deal on Section 232 Tariffs
14 May 2019 - American and Canadian officials could be closing in on an agreement that would lift the Section 232 tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, according to Politico.
EUROFER: Imports, Soft Demand Forecast Pressure European Steelmakers
08 May 2019 - EU steelmakers are being squeezed as a safeguard measure has been ineffective in stopping a wave of imported steel deflected from the U.S. market, reports the European Steel Association.
U. S. Steel CEO: Section 232 Tariffs Are Helping, but Challenges Remain for Steel
07 May 2019 - The Section 232 steel tariffs are helping U.S. producers to recover from the damage caused by unfairly traded imports and are allowing them to make critical re-investments, United States Steel Corporation president and chief executive David Burritt said Tuesday.
Rising Imports Force ArcelorMittal to Curtail Production
06 May 2019 - ArcelorMittal is throttling back its European flat steel production by 3 million metric tons, citing what it called an unprecedented rise in steel imports as well as increasing costs for carbon allowances under the EU’s carbon emissions trading plan.
Commerce Department Rejects Tariff Exclusions for U.S. Slab Importers
25 April 2019 - The U.S. Commerce Department has denied a tariff exclusion request from Allegheny Technologies Inc.’s (ATI) stainless steel joint venture with Tsingshan Group, the company said.
Court Rules Against Steel Importers' Section 232 Challenge
25 March 2019 - The U.S. Court of International Trade has rejected a challenge to the Trump administration’s Section 232 steel tariffs, reports Politico.
U.S. Trade Commission Issues Affirmative Rulings in Two Steel Cases
21 March 2019 - The U. S. International Trade Commission will allow a dumping and subsidy investigation into fabricated structural steel to proceed, and it has cleared the way for duties to be imposed on another product.
U.S. Working on Plan to Lift Section 232 Tariffs on Canada, Mexico
14 March 2019 - The U.S. is looking to lift the Section 232 tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum, a Trump administration official told a Senate committee, the Reuters news service reports.
Trump Economic Adviser Says He Wants to Remove Section 232 Tariffs on Canada, Mexico
25 February 2019 - White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow says he has begun an effort to lift the Section 232 tariffs on Mexican and Canadian steel and aluminum, reports the Bloomberg news service.
U.S. Commerce Department Sets Duties on Large-Diameter Pipe
25 February 2019 - The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized anti-dumping duties on large-diameter welded pipe from four countries.
