Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
October 19, 2015
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License data continues to disappoint as trending toward numbers greater than 3.0 million tons for October. The good news from my office today is I at least spoke with a couple of companies who normally buy foreign steel and they are reporting they have little to no foreign steel on order at this time.
We continue to work diligently on our program for the upcoming Leadership Conference which will be held in March (8-9) at PGA National Resort & Spa the week after the hotel hosts the Honda Golf Classic. We are working with trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz to do a segment on the antidumping and countervailing duty trade laws, what changes may come out of the new trade language passed by the U.S. Congress earlier this summer as well as the status of each of the trade cases and what manufacturing companies and service centers need to be doing to protect their businesses in the future. We will have more details about the Trade segment of our program as well as other segments over the coming weeks. Right now you can set aside those dates…
Registration is open for our next Steel 101 workshop which will be held in Starkville, Mississippi on January 19-20, 2016 and will include a tour of the SDI Columbus steel mill. We are working with a brand new Marriott hotel (not even open yet) and we hope we can get all of the hotel arrangements confirmed by a live human being soon (we will add them to the website at that point in time).
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