Four industry groups representing top U.S. steel producers and the U.S. Iron Workers’ Federation urged President-elect Joe Biden to retain the steel tariffs imposed by President Trump in 2018, saying it was “critical to the viability of the domestic steel in...
The Federal Antimonopoly Agency of the Russian Federation has proposed to investigate billet and rebar and impose export duties to ease the sharp rise in local prices over the past month.
In the week ending on December 19, 2020, US domestic raw steel production was 1,619,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 73.2 percent.
Forecast of Ministry of Economy and Industry (Meti) of Japan, Japan's crude steel production is expected to be 82.5 million tons in the fiscal year from April 2020 to March 2021, down 16% from a year earlier, the 52-year low since fiscal year 1968/69.