Cleveland-Cliffs and USW Blame US Steel for Negative AD/CVD Injury Findings on Tin Mill
Cleveland-Cliffs steel company and the United Steelworkers (USW) labor union criticized U.S. Steel for failing to participate in an injury proceeding before the International Trade Commission on tin mill products from eight countries, which ended without the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties (see 2402060063). Cleveland-Cliffs and USW said the decision will lead to "the continuation of widespread unfair trade practices in the tin mill products market."
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The ITC ended the injury proceeding last month, finding no injury from goods from China, Canada, Germany, South Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey, Taiwan and the U.K. Cleveland-Cliffs Chairman Lourenco Goncalves said that U.S. Steels' failure to submit responses to the ITC's request for information on the "idling of tin lines in Gary and East Chicago, Indiana, and the closure of UPI [steel finishing plant] in California" directly led to the negative injury finding.
"Had U.S. Steel cooperated with the ITC, the Commission would not have been left without the information needed to discern the market forces behind U.S. Steel’s withdrawal from the tin mill products market in the United States," Goncalves said.