Here’s what’s up next in the big coated steel trade case

Attorneys representing domestic petitioners and foreign respondent companies have been busy filing case briefings and making rebuttals as the corrosion-resistant steel unfair trade investigations begin to wind down.

The US government has been conducting the dumping and subsidy investigations since September. That’s when Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI), Nucor, U.S. Steel, Wheeling-Nippon Steel, and the United Steelworkers union petitioned the government, requesting relief from imports of coated flat-rolled steel.