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Still Time to Register for Wednesday's Community Chat

Written by Michael Cowden

November 16, 2021

SMU’s Community Chat webinar on Wednesday will feature veteran trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz. We’ll talk Section 232, the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) with the EU, and the changing global trade landscape.

Leibowitz LewisThe free webinar begins at 11 a.m. ET (10 a.m. CT) on Wednesday, Nov 17. You can register right up to webinar time by clicking here.

Why should you listen? The EU TRQ goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022 – just around the corner – and replaces the blanket 25% tariffs imposed by the Trump administration in 2018.

Also, the U.S. on Friday announced that it had entered talks with Japan that could lead to an easing of Section 232 there too. Will the EU TRQ serve as a template for a deal with Japan, and what about potential future pacts with other U.S. allies such as the UK and South Korea? Does it herald a new period of managed trade in which U.S. adversaries – Russia and China, for example – are increasingly excluded from certain domestic markets?

And what does all of this mean for your business, especially if you’re a smaller trader or manufacturer? If you’re buying steel from the EU, for example, how do you comply with the “melted and poured” language in the TRQ?

Lewis will be our guide as we explore the opportunities and challenges of this new trade environment.

By Michael Cowden, Michael@SteelMarketUpdate.com

 

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is editor-in-chief for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He specializes in flat-rolled steel but has also reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube, and aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago, the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, and the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He has also worked as a copy editor and in marketing at the University of Chicago Press. Cowden has a BA in English from the University of Chicago and an MSJ journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Contact him at michael@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7872.

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