Final Thoughts

The Steel Summit Conference is pushing 230 people and we have 4 weeks to go. We sold out the room block for September 1st. We should (we hope) be able to get more rooms added, however the room block expires either when we sell out the revised number or on August 10th, whichever comes first. We are meeting with the hotel late tomorrow morning. If you are having difficulties getting our room rate wait until at least mid-afternoon tomorrow or early on Thursday to make (or revise) your registration. The hotel is the Airport Marriott Gateway Hotel which is located on the first stop of the SkyTrain (not MARTA) right next to the Georgia International Convention Center (which is also the first stop on the SkyTrain). The special reservation page for our conference can be found by clicking here.

A note about our coverage of the various dumping suits (antidumping and countervailing duty) that have been filed and we expect to be filed by the domestic steel mills. I have decided that it is not in our readers best interest for SMU to be the first to report “something” that happens just to be the first. Over the past few years I have developed relationships with trade attorneys on both sides and I am trying to make sure that when we report something that we not only give what the paperwork may say but to provide an understanding as to what it means for the industry. A good example is the issue of the mills requesting an extension of the preliminary determination of the CVD (countervailing duty). It is important to know what this means and what we need to expect on the antidumping segment of the trade case.