Kevin Dempsey has taken the reins as the chief executive at the American Iron and Steel Institute at a challenging and unprecedented time. Indeed, helping AISI’s steel mill members navigate an economy hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost on his agenda, he said in an interview with Steel Market Update on […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: The Trump administration’s trade policies make for interesting reading; but the results of those policies are, if anything, more interesting. Tariffs are the hallmark of the Trump presidency, especially the Section 301 tariffs on China and the Section […]
The Department of Commerce has initiated an investigation to determine if seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from the Czech Republic, Korea, Russia and Ukraine is being sold at less than fair value in the U.S. market and whether such pipe is being subsidized by the governments of Korea and Russia. […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: You may have seen news stories in the last two weeks about U.S. threats to impose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico because of “surging” levels of imports from those countries. Don’t believe everything you read: […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: The World Trade Organization has had a rough couple of years. The United States arranged the destruction of the WTO Appellate Body because the U.S. alleges that the final tribunal of the WTO dispute settlement system has overstepped […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: The World Trade Organization has had a rough couple of years. The United States arranged the destruction of the WTO Appellate Body because the U.S. alleges that the final tribunal of the WTO dispute settlement system has overstepped […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the American Institute for International Steel’s Section 232 case, bringing an end to the trade group’s constitutional challenge of the Trump administration’s national security tariffs on steel and aluminum. AIIS regrets the court’s decision, said Richard Chriss, president of the institute, which represents foreign producers, metals importers […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: On Monday, the Supreme Court announced its decision not to take the case of American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) v. United States, a case challenging the constitutionality of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: On Monday, the Supreme Court announced its decision not to take the case of American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) v. United States, a case challenging the constitutionality of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, […]
By CRU Prices Analyst Estelle Tran, from CRU’s Global Steel Trade Service U.S. automaker restarts in May drove an increase in steel demand and helped to prop up sheet prices. There is concern, however, over whether there is enough new demand to support mills restarting or if manufacturers are mainly managing pent-up demand. We’ve heard […]
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. I hope you got to enjoy some quality time with your kids earlier today. There has been a call on the Commerce Department to review exports of steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico. There is a question if exports of these products have “surged” since […]
The U.S. auto industry is facing a slew of challenges as it emerges from the COVID-19 crisis and plunges into preparations to meet USMCA compliance on July 1. The Center for Automotive Research presented a discussion with Gov. Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council and former governor of Missouri, on the state […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: Section 232 keeps cropping up in the news; this week, it’s no different. In 2017, the Commerce Department initiated several investigations (on steel, aluminum, autos and auto parts, and uranium). Trade restrictions ensued on steel and aluminum, but […]
Markets are vastly improved from where they were two months ago, said James Banker, Executive Vice President of NLMK USA, during Steel Market Update’s Community Chat on Wednesday. Conditions seem good, mostly because they are coming off a “really awful period,” he said. NLMK USA relies on its customers for information about the market, and […]
On Wednesday, June 10, we will host our next SMU Community Chat webinar with our guest speaker James Banker, Jr., Executive Vice President of NLMK USA. As with every SMU Community Chat webinar, this is free to the public. Feel free to invite others from your company as well as your suppliers and customers. Click […]
On Wednesday, June 10, we will host our next SMU Community Chat webinar with our guest speaker James Banker, Jr., Executive Vice President of NLMK USA. As with every SMU Community Chat webinar, this is free to the public. Feel free to invite others from your company as well as your suppliers and customers. Click […]
On Wednesday, June 10, we will host our next SMU Community Chat webinar with our guest speaker James Banker, Jr., Executive Vice President of NLMK USA. As with every SMU Community Chat webinar, this is free to the public. Feel free to invite others from your company as well as your suppliers and customers. Click […]
Section 232 tariffs will likely remain in place no matter who is the White House in January, said trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz during the SMU Community Chat on June 3. Legal challenges to the tariff measures, however, could cause a change. Firms are challenging the Section 232 exclusion process that appears skewed toward U.S. steel […]
Trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz will be the featured speaker at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 3, for the next SMU Community Chat webinar. The 45-minute webinar is free and open to all interested in the topic of free and fair trade. A regular contributor to Steel Market Update, Leibowitz is an expert on government […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: Editor’s note: Lewis Leibowitz will be the featured speaker during the next SMU Community Chat at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Register for the free webinar by clicking on this link. It is hard to believe that three months […]
Trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz will be the featured speaker at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 3, for the next SMU Community Chat webinar. The 45-minute webinar is free and open to all interested in the topic of free and fair trade. A regular contributor to Steel Market Update, Leibowitz is an expert on government […]
Trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz will be the featured speaker at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 3, for the next SMU Community Chat webinar. The 45-minute webinar is free and open to all interested in the topic of free and fair trade. A regular contributor to Steel Market Update, Leibowitz is an expert on government […]
Trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz will be the next speaker for our SMU Community Chat webinar. The free webinar will be held at 11 AM ET on Wednesday, June 3. The pandemic has not stopped Section 232, anti-dumping and countervailing duties and other trade remedies enjoyed by the domestic steel mills. There is also the new USMCA […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security published a notice in the Federal Register entitled “Notice of Inquiry Regarding the Exclusion Process for Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Import Tariffs and Quotas.” The notice asks for […]
Cleveland-Cliffs expects operations to normalize during the second quarter as end-markets begin recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Although the pandemic effect led to automotive plant shutdowns over the past six weeks, the timing and pace of production restarts as well as consumer sales data have both exceeded our expectations,” said Cliffs’ Chairman, President and CEO […]
The Department of Commerce will self-initiate a Section 232 investigation into whether laminations for stacked transformer cores, stacked and wound transformer cores, electrical transformers and transformer regulators are being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten or impair national security. The laminates for transformers are made of […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: First, to all you moms out there, this is your day. You deserve a lot more just like it. Happy Mother’s Day! Like most of you, I am trying to make sense of the world during the pandemic; […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: It’s hard to blame Roberto Azevedo for quitting. The Director General (Chief Executive) of the World Trade Organization is leaving in September, one year before his term runs out. The WTO is in turmoil because of U.S. hostility […]
Thyssenkrupp Materials NA, Inc., Southfield, Mich., has filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs. The North American distribution arm of Germany’s Thyssenkrupp, TKMNA is an importer of steel and aluminum. The complaint, filed April 21 with the U.S. Court of International Trade, alleges that the Commerce Department has granted exclusions […]
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington: I hope everyone had a peaceful and, above all, safe Easter and Passover holiday. If I missed any other celebrations over the last two weeks, I hope you will accept my apology and let me know about them. […]