Steel News

EU Suspects Chinese Circumvention of Anti-Dumping Measure

27 November 2019 - The European Commission has launched an inquiry into whether Chinese exporters are circumventing anti-dumping duties on corrosion-resistant steel.

Leaning Into Market Headwinds, Tata Steel Europe Proposes Major Restructuring

19 November 2019 - Tata Steel Europe plans to eliminate up to 3,000 jobs and boost sales of higher-value steels part of a broad restructuring brought about by a soggy European market.

EU Opens New Trade Investigation Into Hot-Rolled Stainless Coil

11 October 2019 - The European Commission has initiated an anti-subsidy investigation into hot-rolled stainless sheet and coil from two countries and has imposed duties on a different steel product.

U.S. Proposes New Duties on Mexican, Chinese Structural Steel Imports

05 September 2019 - The U.S. Commerce Department has set tentative anti-dumping duties of up to 141.3% on fabricated structural steel from China and up to 30.6% on the same products from Mexico, ruling that producers in those countries were dumping product and undercutting domestic prices.

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.

ArcelorMittal Announces New Production Cuts

29 May 2019 - The world’s largest steelmaker on Wednesday announced new production curtailments in Europe, citing weak demand and competition from imports.

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.