The U.S. Department of Commerce has set antidumping duty rates on carbon and alloy steel wire rod imports from South Africa and Ukraine, according to the American Shipper magazine.
Ukraine's metallurgical sector has plunged into recession mainly due to the crisis in the eastern region of Donbas, according to Xinhua.
Egypt will maintain tariffs on steel rebar from China, Turkey, and Ukraine for a period of five years, the trade ministry said on Wednesday, extending a temporary tariff imposed earlier this year, according to Reuters.
The Ukrmetprom metallurgy association has announced Ukraine saw a 13% decline in steel production in January-October 2017, year-over-year, to 17.66 million tonnes, according to a latest update.
Ukrainian steelmakers cut steel output by 0.8% in September 2017 year-over-year (y-o-y), to 1.845 million tonnes, while moving from the 11th to the 13th place in the international steelmakers rating drawn up by the World Steel Association (WSA).
Ukraine saw a 16% decline in steel production in January-August 2017 year-over-year, to 13.83 million tonnes, according to the Ukrmetprom Association.
Ukraine climbed from the 14th to 12th place in the international steelmakers rating compiled by the World Steel Association (WSA) in July 2017 despite the fact that Ukrainian metallurgy reduced steel production by 12.9% during that month year-over-year, to 1.810 million tonnes.
The European Union is planning to impose duties of up to 33 percent on hot-rolled steel imports from Brazil, Iran, Russia and Ukraine to counter what it sees as unfairly low prices, according to a document seen by Reuters.
Ukraine smelted 5.6 million tonnes of steel in January-March 2017, which was 8% down year-over-year, according to the Ukrmetprom (formerly Metallurgprom) association of Ukrainian steel producers.
The European Commission has decided it will not impose provisional duties on hot-rolled steel from Brazil, Iran, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, but could still find the countries have breached rules on unfair competition, industry sources said on Wednesday, March 29, according to Reuters.