Steel Mills
March 6, 2017
Response to Recent Letter to the Editor
Written by John Packard
Steel Market Update recently published a “letter to the editor” regarding the domestic mills need to compete in a world market. We received comments from a mill based source who asked they not be identified. The original letter is below with the response being the “bold” print below:
I guess it’s fine for the US mills to complain about the competition in the international market place being “unfair”. As well as it may be or not. But the mills’ suppliers of scrap, iron ore, ferroalloys, refractories, inoculants, and many other products deal with it every day without help save ferroalloys. I can’t believe the nerve of the USA mills to say all foreign competition is unfair. (I have never heard anyone say all competition is unfair, this is similar to a temporary, 7 country immigration policy being called closed borders or anti-immigration or anti-muslim, a complete, on-purpose misrepresentation) They get relief and we do not. (who is we?) Nucor imports cargoes of scrap from Europe at prices under our market. (where are the facts on this? Those buys are made at an international market price and by the time they arrive can be higher or lower than domestic market.) Did the EU dump on us?
