Category: Trade Cases

The steel industry may have to wait even longer for the initial duty determinations in the pending coated steel unfair trade investigations.

This may be the most consequential six months for trade policy in recent memory. The wait to see what form Trump's actions take is almost over.

It feels a little like déjà vu: Trump threatens tariffs, Canada retaliates with tariffs of its own.

The Trump administration may be considering alternative tariff plans, but Trump said the report is "Fake News."

The US Department of Commerce has determined that anti-dumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVDs) on welded line pipe imports from China and Japan should remain in place for five more years.

At holiday time, it’s customary to think about what’s happened during the year gone by and what to hope for (or brace for) in the next.

“New commodity-specific tariffs, mainly on steel and aluminum products, could widen price differentials and divert trade flows,” the credit agency forewarned.

The Commerce Department is raising the import duties on imports of corrosion-resistant sheet and cut-to-length plate from Korea.

The world has had a few shocks recently. The CEO of a major health insurance company was gunned down in Manhattan. The 50-year Assad dynasty in Syria was pushed out less than two weeks after rebels started an offensive. And President-elect Trump is promising tariffs on everything a month before he takes office. But one shock has been taking place for a lot longer than the last few weeks. The 70-year consensus on trade hasn’t just been challenged. It’s been repudiated.

Vedoya said the proposed tariffs are "an irrational measure that would harm both their own industry and ours."

We focused on trade actions the second Trump administration might take in a prior column. Since then, we have learned more about the individuals who will be leading these efforts. Recent nominations reinforce the president-elect’s statements that tariffs will feature prominently in the second administration and that trade actions will be unveiled at lightning speed.

Transition to a new administration is always uncertain. This one is more uncertain than most.

A newly adjusted anti-dumping duty on imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Argentina is too low, according to U.S. Steel. This past week, the Department of Commerce released the preliminary results of annual AD duty order reviews on OCTG from both Argentina and Mexico. It is reviewing imports during the one-year period that […]

The Canadian government estimates steel and aluminum imports from China will decrease by nearly 50% due to newly implemented tariffs.

The president-elect has wasted no time in using the threat of tariffs to reopen negotiations and, ideally, score other political wins along the way.

Canada has launched its own investigation into the dumping of corrosion-resistant steel sheet. Unlike the sprawling coated case underway in the US, this one will look at coated imports from just one country and company.

American and Canadian steel trade groups, as well as the government of Mexico, have responded to President-elect Trump's threat of imposing 25% tariffs on all US imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on imports from China.

President-elect Donald Trump threatened on social media Monday evening to impose tariffs of 25% on all US imports from Canada and Mexico.

Are you still recovering from the election? If so, please get plenty of rest. Next year will require you to be awake and alert. Things are likely to change. We can’t be sure exactly how they will change yet.

Nippon Steel says it respects the US Department of Commerce’s findings in administrative reviews despite the agency recently assigning the Japanese steelmaker a higher dumping margin.

Now that the dust has settled from the US election, as have the immediate reactions in the equity, bond, and commodity markets, this is a prime opportunity to look at how a second Trump presidency might affect the US steel market.

Import duties on rebar from a handful of countries will continue to be collected for at least another five years.

China is one of the elephants in the room as the transition to Trump 2.0 continues. While the people and policies are still being formulated, it’s possible to detect a strategy for the new Trump administration. I think there are two imperative issues that the new administration needs to balance. The Trump strategy will, I believe, follow the following points. First, trade is one of the issues that got President Trump elected in 2016 and 2024—it nearly got him elected in 2020, save for the pandemic. If President Trump had won in 2020, I might be writing chronicles about the end of his eight years in the White House now instead of projecting what the next Trump administration would accomplish or break. Oh, well—that’s life. Trade will necessarily be a key feature of relations with China for the next four years.

Commerce determined a significant dumping margin for hot-rolled steel imports from Japan's Nippon Steel.

The Commerce Department determined that, if anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders were allowed to expire, or be ‘sunset,’ the illegal dumping and subsidization of HR imports would be likely to continue at sizeable rates.

At the request of domestic petitioners, the Commerce Department has postponed its deadline for making preliminary countervailing duty margin determinations in the coated steel trade case investigations.

After a frenzied election cycle, Donald Trump will return to the White House with an amplified trade agenda.

Last week’s Community Chat with international trade attorney and regular SMU columnist Lewis Leibowitz was packed full of valuable perspectives on trade topics near and dear to the steel industry.

The domestic steel tube industry is applauding a federal appeals court decision upholding a ruling that confirms at least one importer misclassified steel conduit imported into the US.

I joined in a Steel Market Update community chat last week. Predictably, many of the questions concerned the likely results of a Trump or Harris victory in the election. Like most people, I don’t know who will win. But by next week I probably will know. Here is my take, with an emphasis on steel policy. There are a surprising number of similarities between the Democratic and Republican candidates’ positions on steel policy. In part, that is because both candidates are going after the same voters—steel workers, whether unionized or not.