Government/Policy
September 5, 2025
Written by Kristen DiLandro
A potential repealing of “reciprocal” tariffs placed by President Donald Trump on US imports – including those of of direct reduced iron (DRI), iron ore, hot-briquetted iron (HBI), and pig iron – would have only a nominal impact on the US steel market, market participants said.
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.