Overseas
September 11, 2025
Written by David Schollaert
SMU’s average domestic hot-rolled (HR) coil price ticked down to $800 per short ton (st) this week, $5/st lower than $805/st last week.
With only a modest decline in US prices, HR imports from Germany and Italy, on a landed basis, remain much more expensive than domestic hot band.
The Commerce Department has found high dumping rates of Chinese tin mill products in the US market.
In the trade case investigating subsidized wire rod imports from Algeria, the Commerce Department set final subsidy rates and officially issued the countervailing duty (CVD) order.
The US Department of Commerce has raised the anti-dumping duties (AD) on imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Vietnam.
The Commerce Department has issued its preliminary countervailing duty (CVD) determination in the trade case investigating tin mill products from China.
China is bumping up against its official primary production capacity limit of 45.3 million metric tons/year, but production can still increase through “capacity creep.”