JUNE 2014 - Electrical Steel Trade Cases

JUNE 2014 - Electrical Steel Trade Cases

On May 16, 2014, the Department of Commerce announced its preliminary determinations in the Antidumping (AD) investigations of imports of non-oriented electrical steels (NOES) from China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden and Taiwan. Those preliminary determinations included proposed duties on the NOES products as follows:

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DECEMBER 2013 - Electrical Steel Trade Cases

DECEMBER 2013 - Electrical Steel Trade Cases

The petitions covering Non-Oriented Electrical Steel (NOES) and Grain Oriented Electrical Steel (GOES) that were filed by the Domestic Producers of these materials earlier this fall have moved through their initial review by the ITC.  AK Steel recently released a statement on their website expressing their opinion on the most recent developments, as detailed below.

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MARCH 2014 - Reshoring of Domestic Manufacturing

MARCH 2014 - Reshoring of Domestic Manufacturing

Reshoring of Domestic Manufacturing – The topic of Reshoring continues to find its way into broad based discussions as to the overall domestic manufacturing sector.  As manufacturing companies that had previously made decisions to move manufacturing out of the USA are waking up to the fact that not all of the “savings” that drove these decisions were actually realized, some are re-assessing those decisions.  This is certainly a positive development and one that we trust will continue to gain momentum in the coming years.

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OCTOBER 2013 - Electrical Steel

OCTOBER 2013 - Electrical Steel – The domestic manufacturers of Silicon Electric Steel (AK Steel and Allegheny Technologies, Inc.), have filed Antidumping Duty petitions as well as Countervailing Duty petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission.  These actions were filed against specific countries with respect to Silicon Electric Steel sales within the United States. 

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