Contributor: Laura Miller

“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 steelmaker has kept its weekly consumer spot price for hot-rolled steel sheet unchanged since Nov. 12.

The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI) slid further in November as planning for data centers and warehouses continued to decline.

Nucor’s weekly spot price for hot-rolled (HR) coil will remain at $750 per short ton (st) for a fifth week.

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 […]

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.

Jodi Parnell has been named president and CEO of Birmingham, Ala.-based service center group O’Neal Steel.

A trustee will lead AHMSA through the liquidation stage of its bankruptcy.

After a career in steel spanning four decades, Chuck Schmitt, head of SSAB Americas, will retire next year.

For the fourth week in a row, Nucor will keep its published spot price for hot-rolled (HR) coil unchanged.

Flat-rolled steel service center Alliance Steel has expanded into the tubular market with the launch of Alliance Tubular Products. The new Alliance division manufactures square and rectangular electric resistance welded (ERW) products and steel HSS tubing. Production has already started and will continue to ramp up next year, the company said in a statement. Alliance […]

Nucor is holding its hot-rolled (HR) coil base price flat at $750/st for the third week in a row.

Primetals Technologies will be replacing two electric-arc furnaces at a steel mill in the US with one more energy-efficient furnace.

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.

With climbing imports and falling consumption, the Latin American steel industry has had a challenging 2024, according to an Alacero report.

One of the perhaps unintentional perks of being a trade journalist is the opportunity to travel and cover an array of industry conferences and events. Some I've attended have been at fun locations, like Palm Springs and Tampa, Fla. Others have been in more practical locations, like SMU’s Steel Summit in Atlanta and American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) meetings in Washington, D.C.

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

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

Wolfe Research's Managing Director Timna Tanners discusses the 'Trumplications' for steel in the coming year in this week's SMU Community Chat.

After failing to reach agreements with its creditors, Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) has been formally declared bankrupt by a Mexican bankruptcy court.

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.

Cleveland-based Olympic Steel announced its first acquisition of 2024, Georgia-based components manufacturer Metal Works.

Luxembourg-based Ternium achieved record-high sales volumes in Mexico in the third quarter, reaching key milestones at its Pesqueria industrial center, the largest project in the Latin American steelmaker's history.

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 negative impact of high interest rates on consumer behavior, particularly in the automotive and housing sectors, was the primary driver of the demand weakness seen across the third quarter, according to Cleveland-Cliffs executives.

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.

Canada’s Stelco Holdings Inc. is now officially owned by Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.

Olympic Steel remained profitable in the third quarter despite strong economic headwinds and pricing pressure across the steel industry.