Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., China’s second-largest steelmaker, urged a U.S. trade agency to reject a complaint filed by U.S. Steel Corp. to block imports from the Asian nation.
“Never before has a single company sought to use this agency to erect what would be a total blockade of steel trade from an entire country,” Baosteel’s American unit said in a May 11 filing with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington.
Baosteel’s submission was one of more than a dozen filed either in favor or against U.S. Steel’s complaint. The complaint pits steel makers against some U.S. packaging companies who say they can’t get the products they need from domestic suppliers.
