Trade Cases
August 11, 2015
Steel Mills Hit Trifecta as Hot Rolled / Plate Trade Suit Filed
Written by John Packard
Six domestic steel mills joined together to file a hot rolled trade suit today. This is now the third such suit since the filing against corrosion resistant (galvanized & zinc-aluminum or Galvalume) on June 3rd and the cold rolled petition of a couple of weeks ago. With the HR case the mills have hit the trifecta having filed against all of the flat rolled products followed by Steel Market Update.
Earlier today, AK Steel, ArcelorMittal USA, Nucor, SSAB Enterprises, Steel Dynamics and US Steel collectively filed a petition with the US Department of Commerce for the “imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on certain hot rolled steel flat products from Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United Kingdom….”
