Tag: steel

December 14, 2023

A surge in steel imports from Mexico hasn’t gone unnoticed by members of the U.S. Senate. Fourteen of them, led by Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), are urging the Biden administration to press the Mexican government to adhere […]

September 29, 2023

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek held a signing ceremony on Thursday to celebrate a new law that effectively mandates that the iron and steel used in state-funded infrastructure projects will be Made in America. Kotek originally signed House Bill (HB) 3332 […]

September 2, 2021

Majestic Steel USA, Inc. will establish a new state-of-the-art service center and processing facility on the campus of Nucor Hickman in Blytheville, AR. The 515,000-square-foot facility will feature next generation processing and warehousing equipment while creating approximately 225 new jobs. […]

October 19, 2018

China’s steelmakers pushed production rates to record levels last month, underscoring a broadly bullish picture for mills in the world’s biggest market as prices rally again. Output of crude steel rose 7.5% on year to 80.85 million metric tons, according […]

March 15, 2018

WASHINGTON — Automakers and other businesses that want to win exclusions from President Trump’s planned tariffs on imported steel and aluminum will face a high bar set by the U.S. Commerce Department, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The […]

March 7, 2018

There has been quite a furor in financial and political circles since President Trump announced the that he would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from all countries. There has been an outcry that it would raise consumer prices, […]

January 12, 2018

President Trump has 90 days to safeguard American-made steel. It’s all on President Trump now. The Commerce Department on Thursday evening announced it had officially submitted to President Trump its national security investigation into steel imports. Trump now has 90 […]

May 17, 2017

The Department of Commerce is looking into U.S. steel industry complaints that several foreign competitors have gained an unfair advantage by selling specialty steel tubing at artificially low prices, or benefiting from state subsidies. The review of cold-drawn mechanical tubing, […]

May 24, 2016

Last week, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced tariffs that were described as “massive” on imports of cold-rolled steel from China. Cold-rolled steel is the kind of steel that ends up in cars and appliances. This week, the ITC will be […]

May 11, 2016

The Obama administration is expected to meet with Chinese officials this week to hold talksabout China’s steel overcapacity problem. But while folks in Washington will keep up the talk, state lawmakers across the country have a message for them: It’s […]

April 12, 2016

Good news for people who like bad news: China has no solid plans to cut back its massive steel overcapacity! That’s bad for the American steel industry; while the Chinese government slowly works out the structural problems in its planned […]

February 19, 2016

The National Governors Association is meeting this weekend in Washington, DC. One of the governors – Minnesota’s Mark Dayton – is scheduled to meet with President Obama, and he’s got one thing on his mind: the steel import crisis. According […]

January 26, 2016

Reflecting a global economic slowdown, worldwide steel production dropped 2.8% last year to 1.62 billion tons, just under half of the total produced by China, the World Steel Association said Monday. Global steel production slipped back after five years of […]