Steel Mills
March 2, 2020
NLMK USA Files Complaint with USCIT
Written by Sandy Williams
NLMK USA has filed a complaint with the U.S. Court of International Trade alleging that NLMK’s requests for steel slab exclusions from Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act have been wrongfully denied.
The Indiana and Pennsylvania mills use imported steel slab to process into finished products. The 250-255 mm thick slab (nominally “10 inch”) cannot be sourced from slab producers in the U.S. The company also uses thinner slabs, about 10 percent of its volume, but has never been able to purchases more than 20 percent of its requirement domestically in any given month, said NLMK.
