Steel Trader Weighs in on Dumping Suits

Steel Market Update (SMU) received this Letter to the Editor from a steel trading company executive providing an opinion on the recent slew of antidumping trade suits on flat rolled steels:

First of all congratulations to Dave Phelps for his comments. As the longtime president of AIIS he has personally seen many years of domestic steel industry complaints being filed.

I would like to add a few points;

1. Ever since 1968 the US domestic steel industry has gone to Washington for help instead of competing on quality, service, modernization and developing an export business themselves. Yes, they are exporting to Canada and Mexico but exports to the rest of the world are almost non existent.