Steel Products Prices North America
September 26, 2017
Trading Companies Swear Flat Rolled Imports Will Drop
Written by John Packard
One of the surprises over the past year has been the amount of foreign steel imports still arriving in the United States despite antidumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD), a Section 337 complaint, a circumvention complaint and the Trump directive for the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) to investigate steel as it relates to national security under the Section 232 statute.
Late this afternoon, the U.S. Department of Commerce released foreign steel import license data collected through the 26th of September. Based on that data, September steel imports continue to be on pace for yet another 3 million net ton month.
