Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
September 9, 2015
Sentiment amongst most steel buyers is that the mills (USS & ArcelorMittal USA) will not lockout the union workers. It appears there is a bit of a stalemate right now as the mills feel they need to get something from the union and the union workers believe that what they have they earned and cannot be taken away. ATI is going to use a mediator so maybe what comes out of their mediation will work its way into the USS/AM negotiations.
I am working on a couple of articles that I think our readers will find very interesting for Sunday evening’s edition of Steel Market Update. One is on language changes in the cold rolled and hot rolled antidumping and countervailing duty trade suits and the other is on the secondary flat rolled steel business.
We still have seats available for our upcoming Steel 101: Introduction to Steel Making & Market Fundamentals workshop in Davenport, Iowa. This workshop includes a tour of the SSAB mini-mill. Details can be found on our website.
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