Anti-Dumping Investigations and Tariff Threats Rattle Steel Traders

Via Metal Miner “The import market is slow right now. We have seen a lot of pressure on imports,” one trader said on January 24. They were referring to the anti-dumping investigation on HRC imports from Japan, Egypt, India and Vietnam, which the European Commission started in August. The move followed a request by the European Steel Association, also known as Eurofer, on behalf of its members. The findings of that investigation are due by April and could see increased provisional duties on material from those countries as well as retroactive…