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    April 1, 2014

    Anti-Dumping Cases Threatened, Now What?

    Written by David Phelps

    Steel Market Update has been well aware, and has reported on, the prospect of new trade cases being levied by the U.S. steel industry against imports of cold rolled and coated (galvanized & Galvalume) steels. There have been suggestions that the dumping suits could be filed within the month. So, we wanted to get the opinion of David Phelps, one of our contributing writers and the former president of the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS). Here is his report:  

    Recently there has been a lot of speculation regarding the filing of more anti-dumping and countervailing duty suits by the domestic steel industry.  I will try to make some sense of the situation, principally from the perspective of the folks who have to pay for this trip into the protectionist world of steel anti-dumping — consumers and importers.

    David Phelps

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