US mills demand immediate import protection

摘要

Weirton Steel chief executive and AISI chairman Richard Riederer has called upon the US government to immediately put quotas on steel imports where bilateral arrangements can be made as a stop-gap until longer term solutions can be put in place.Riederer, other US executives and the United Steelworkers union addressed a panel of legislators at an unusual US senate steel caucus hearing in Pittsburgh. The industry again made the call for a government-initiated Section 201 trade case to provide comprehensive protection from a second import surge in three years.