We continue to support strong trade enforcement that will ensure a vibrant industry, competitive wages, and outstanding quality of life for our industry’s workers. We encourage the Biden Administration to continue to maintain the Section 232 tariffs and quotas, ensure strong trade remedy laws that address unfair trade practices, and protect our environment from high-emission foreign steel production.
Five major trade associations representing America’s steel producers, fabricators and workers, wrote to President Biden on May 19, 2021 to emphasize the importance of the steel tariffs put in place by the U.S. government in 2018. The letter explained that the tariffs were necessitated by repeated surges in steel imports driven by global steel overcapacity […]
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Today, SSINA joined steel industry associations in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa to renew their call for governments of steel-producing economies to intensify their work in the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity (GFSEC). Steel industries throughout the world expressed tremendous concern about the recent increase in steel overcapacity at a time when steel […]
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Five U.S. steel industry associations, representing nearly two million U.S. workers directly or indirectly, sent a letter to Senate leadership today urging Congress to include at least $37 billion for state DOTs in the future relief bill that will be considered by Congress this month. “Ensuring that state DOTs have appropriate funding to carry out […]
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A coalition of manufacturing groups sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives Rules Committee voicing their support for Bost-Lamb-Crawford amendment to 2021 Defense Appropriations Act, to ensure sufficient resources to combat illegal foreign trade practices (Amendment #76 to H.R. 7617). “The Bost-Lamb-Crawford amendment (amendment #76) would help ensure adequate funding for critical […]
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A coalition of eleven manufacturing groups sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate urging passage of The Great American Outdoors Act (S. 3422), which would permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) while providing billions to address the backlog of deferred maintenance on the nation’s public lands; and, passage of the […]
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The U.S. member companies of five steel industry groups, representing nearly two million U.S. workers, wrote a letter urging Congress to include an infrastructure package in the next phase of COVID-19 stimulus legislation. In a March 31, 2020 letter to Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy and Charles Schumer, the American Iron and Steel Institute […]
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WASHINGTON, DC – Five leading steel industry associations today expressed concern about a recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) notification that importers may be granted additional days for payment of estimated duties, taxes and other fees, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. In a letter today to Mark Morgan, acting CBP Commissioner, the American […]
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