Trade Cases
May 5, 2020
Commerce Self-Initiates Investigation of Electrical Steel Imports
Written by Sandy Williams
The Department of Commerce will self-initiate a Section 232 investigation into whether laminations for stacked transformer cores, stacked and wound transformer cores, electrical transformers and transformer regulators are being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten or impair national security.
The laminates for transformers are made of grain-oriented electrical steel. AK Steel, a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs, is currently the only producer of GOES left in the United States.
