Final Thoughts

This will be a busy week – at least the beginning of the week. We have the US Department of Commerce scheduled to release Preliminary Determinations on Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Pipes and Tubes from Turkey on Monday. On Tuesday (vote will be on Monday) the US DOC is scheduled to release antidumping (AD) Preliminary Determinations on corrosion resistant steels (galvanized/Galvalume). The CORE announcement will be a critical one for the domestic steel industry and will most likely clear a path (provide a road map) for the cold rolled and hot rolled AD determinations to follow. Our expectation is for China to be hit hard while other countries will be not so much (or none at all).

This is also the week of Christmas and at the end of next week is New Year’s Eve. Both of these events will impact our publishing schedule. We will publish again on Tuesday, December 22nd and then we will not publish another Executive level issue until the following Tuesday, December 29th unless something happens that needs to be covered and brought to the attention of our customers. We will not publish on Thursday, December 31, 2015 and will have a limited issue on the following Sunday (end of month data), January 3, 2016.