The United States International Trade Commission recently ruled in a five-year sunset review of duties on carbon and alloy wire rod imports from several countries.
Category: Imports
Steel capacity utilization continues recent gains, moves to 58.9%
The U.S. steel sector has slowly but surely been showing some signs of recovery.
This Morning in Metals: June steel imports drop to 1.3M metric tons
This morning in metals news: U.S. steel imports fell in June; Freeport-McMoRan reported its Q2 and first-half results; and Norsk Hydro’s underlying EBIT for the second quarter gained compared with Q2 2019.
This Morning in Metals: U.S. Steel to restart Gary Works blast furnace
This morning in metals news: U.S. Steel plans to restart another blast furnace at its Gary Works; imports of blooms, billets and slabs from Japan have seen a significant jump this year; and silver prices have surged to a seven-year high.
This Morning in Metals: CIT rules on U.S. doubling of Section 232 steel tariffs on imports from Turkey
This morning in metals news: the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled the U.S.’s doubling of Section 232 steel tariffs for imports from Turkey in 2018 violated the Fifth Amendment’s Equal Protection guarantees; Western Copper and Gold announced an increase in its mineral reserves; and Alcoa released its second-quarter earnings results.
Even a pandemic can’t slow the deterioration of U.S.-E.U. trade relations
While small beer compared to the U.S.’s trade war with China, the growing dispute between Washington and Brussels over subsidies by aircraft makers is likely to develop into an escalating series of tit-for-tat measures this year.
Week in Review: Industrial production rises; Liberty Steel invests in the future; MW aluminum premium spikes
Before we head into the weekend, let’s take a look back at the week that was and some of the metals storylines here on MetalMiner:
This Morning in Metals: Aluminum sector CEOs express opposition to return of Section 232 aluminum tariff for Canada, Mexico
This morning in metals news: CEOs across the aluminum industry supply chain sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to voice their opinion about a potential reimposition of aluminum tariffs on aluminum from Canada and Mexico; the International Aluminum Institute recently released global production figures for May; and the Energy Information Administration […]
This Morning in Metals: U.S. steel imports down 19.2% through May
This morning in metals news: U.S. steel imports were down by nearly one-fifth during the January-May period; India has imposed duties on some steel products imported from China, Korea and Vietnam; and imports of oil country goods are down significantly this year.
USITC: Imports of collated steel staples from China injure U.S. industry
The United States International Trade Commission voted unanimously in its anti-dumping and countervailing subsidy review of imports of Chinese collated steel staples, concluding the imports are injurious to U.S. industry.
