Government/Policy
April 4, 2020
Written by Lewis Leibowitz
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington:
It’s unusual for a business to die from only one cause, just like it’s unusual for a person to die from only one cause. There is usually an underlying condition that made the business, or the person, vulnerable to attack.
Several steel trade organizations have called on President Trump to resist weakening Section 232 steel tariffs.
The US Commerce Department has raised the anti-dumping duties (AD) on imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from South Korea.
After an annual administrative review, the Commerce Department increased the anti-dumping duties on large-diameter welded pipe from Turkey.
The US Department of Commerce has preliminarily determined that critical circumstances exist in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of large-diameter graphite electrodes (LDGEs) from China.
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) is pressing President Donald Trump to raise the issue of China’s steel exports and industry subsidies during his upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.