The European Union, in defense of European companies such as ArcelorMittal and ThyssenKrupp, imposes a tariff of up to 26.2% on imports of cold stainless steel rolled plates manufactured in China and Russia. Brussels has taken this decision after that the exporters of these two countries...
The world's largest steelmaker has decided to paralyze its steel production "temporarily and indefinitely" in the Compacta de Bizkaia steelworks (ACB) from February 12, the date on which virtually all of its 335 workers will be entered into the Employment Regulation (ERE). The management...
The Vizcaya Federation of Metal Companies (FVEM) calls for action to "protect the heart of European industry" to "unfair" practices of "dumping" that takes China in the steel sector. FVEM president, José Luis López Gil, taking advantage of the presentation of the 'Economic Outlook Report...
The country has just announced that will seek to reduce their steel surplus. According to Li Xinchuang, head of Planning and Research Institute of Metallurgical Industry of China, the country's plans to reduce production between 100 and 150 million tons will mean a loss...
According to the Argentina Chamber Steel, the retraction of the steel industry last year over the previous is explained solely by the severe shrinkage of the global oil market, since it's the main destination of welded & seamless tubes. In November 2015 the manufacture of hot-rolled...
Siderurgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro (Sidor) since last Monday is paralyzed because, allegedly, industrial maintenance that runs annually. Unofficially it was learned that the state company will not be closed or privatized, as have been expressing sectors of the Venezuelan opposition. The secretary of the Trade...
According to China Daily, the Association of Iron and Steel of China (CISA) expressed opposition to Mexico's decision to initiate an antidumping investigation on steel imports coming from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. CISA vice president, Wang Liqun, said the association is completely at odds with...
The main players of steel in Argentina (as the Techint Group, Acindar Grupo Arcelor Mittal and Sipar Gerdau) fell last week prices in dollars between 21 and 23 percent, due to falling oil prices and the economic downturn international. The new price lists for...
Last couple of days the Census Bureau reported that US steel imports that made that country in November recorded the lowest level in nearly four years. According to the report, the volume of purchases abroad fell 22.7 percent to 2 million 133 thousand tons,...
The international steel industry continues unified alerting governments around the world about the negative impact that would cause the granting of market economy status to China, because of the consequences this would have on the economies of the rest of the planet. Nine associations...