Steel plate mills operating here in the US appear to have gotten just a little bit more help from the International Trade Commission (ITC). The ITC voted unanimously to essentially extend tariffs on imported steel plate from Korea, Indonesia and India. “Revoking the existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from [...]
Continued from Part One. In another twist, the Chinese are looking to bring their own case against the US in what appears on the outset as a somewhat self-defeating act. Beijing is considering sanctioning a trade case against US producers of polysilicon, the raw material for stage 1 of the process (mentioned in Part One). The [...]
Few sunny days ahead for US solar manufacturing industry. Source: solarenergyfact.org You may believe it was inevitable. Sooner or later, production of what is essentially a commodity item like photovoltaic solar panels would prove uncompetitive in Western markets as low-cost emerging markets reached critical mass and, in something of a downturn, flooded the market at [...]
A recent editorial in the New York Times on China and currency manipulation caught our eye, and based on the topic and the news headlines surrounding it, it certainly caught Beijing’s eye as well. The Right Way to Go About It? The US Senate is currently debating the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform bill, a [...]
To use a phrase recently turned into a headline by the Economist, the “sorry state of American trade may get worse before it gets better. It seems US manufacturing, including the steel industry, is fighting an uphill battle on many international trade issues these days. Conflicting reports of US exports don’t help, either. For example, [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En6zLHQVuqs[/youtube] Timothy Brightbill speaks with MetalMiner’s Taras Berezowsky on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, held in Chicago until Sept. 15, may affect the US’ trade relationship with several Asian nations — including China — when a final pact is signed. An international negotiations process between trade representatives from nine governments, including the United States, Australia [...]
Over the past two weeks we have written about diverse uses for daily global metal price data. At times, the uses appear obvious, as in the first and second posts, and some slightly less so (although not for savvy industrial metal buying organizations.) However in this, our final installment of this series on uses of [...]
Certain segments of the American population tend to hold negative feelings for international institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), or the World Trade Organization (WTO) “ and some go even further by publishing scathing remarks (the ubiquitous billboards in the more conservatively inclined parts of the country) or full-fledged [...]
