Trade Cases
October 17, 2018
Section 232: Rebuttals to Rebuttals
Written by Sandy Williams
U.S. Steel and Nucor made their final rebuttals to tariff exclusion requests filed by Evraz NA and California Steel Industries for imports of steel slab. Evraz and CSI maintain that the slabs they require are not readily available in the U.S. Both U.S. Steel and Nucor argue that exclusions would undermine the president’s policy to protect national security. Rebuttals from Evraz and CSI to objections by domestic mills are “untrue or irrelevant” to Commerce’s analysis and decision, said U.S. Steel.
U.S. Steel and Nucor dispute the claim that due to blast furnace closures over the years, domestic melted and poured slab is not readily available in the U.S.
