Industrial Minerals


US steel bodies call for action on China export restrictions

06 April 2011

by Jessica Roberts

Associations await WTO decision on exports of key steelmaking materials

Keywords: steel, fluorspar, bauxite, coke, exports, WTO, panel

Six US steel associations have called on US trade representative Ambassador Ron Kirk to re-engage the World Trade Organisation on China’s raw material policies, such as the restriction of key steelmaking raw materials currently under panel review at the international body.

 

In a letter to Ambassador Kirk, representatives from the USA’s main steel bodies – including the American Iron and Steel Institute and the...