Download or read book Steel Industry and Trade Issues written by Stephen Cooney and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steel Industry and Trade Issues written by Stephen Cooney and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steel Trade Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems of the U S Steel Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Competitive Status of the U S Steel Industry written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the influences of technology and international trade policies on the troubled U.S. steel industry. Does leadership in technology guarantee competitive advantage in industrial markets? Or do the costs of production and the lack of investment capital offset technological gains for the domestic steel industry? Which international trade policies can help this industry, and which may be harming it? With these and other questions in view, The Competitive Status of the U.S. Steel Industry estimates global trends in steel trade, discusses patterns of production and consumption, and analyzes the possible effects of alternative governmental policies on this critically important industry.
Download or read book Steel Industry and Trade Issues Record No written by Cooney and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by Congressional Research Service: The Libr and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. steel industry has faced increasing difficulties since the late 1990s. More than 30 U.S. steel producers, including Bethlehem, LTV, National, and Wheeling Pittsburgh, have gone into bankruptcy and some have ceased operating. While different companies and parts of the industry have been affected to different degrees, active and retired steelworkers and their union representatives have become particularly concerned about the industry's possible inability to continue to fund pension and healthcare benefit commitments (an issue known as "legacy costs"). U.S. policymakers have responded with a variety of measures. The House of Representatives in early 1999 approved a bill that would have required the President to take measures that would have rolled back imports to a level prevailing before a 1997-98 import surge. The Clinton Administration responded with expedited enforcement of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as a Section 201 trade case focused on wire rod and line pipe products. The 106th Congress also approved and President Clinton signed laws to establish a steel loan guarantee program and to distribute to petitioners penalty duties from antidumping and antisubsidy trade cases, including those involving steel. These measures did not prevent a new downturn in the domestic industry in ...
Download or read book Problems in U S Steel Market written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Policy and Market Power written by Bruce A. Blonigen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms' abilities to price above marginal cost (i.e., market power). The US steel industry provides an excellent example to study these issues, as it has received many different types of trade protection over the past decades. We model the US steel market and then use a panel of data on major steel products from 1980 through 2006 to examine the effects of various trade policies on the steel market. We find that the US steel market is very competitive throughout our sample with the exception of the period in which they received comprehensive voluntary restraint agreements (i.e., quotas) and were able to price substantially above marginal cost. All other forms of protection were in tariff form and had little effect on market power, consistent with prior theoretical literature on the nonequivalence of tariffs and quotas. We also find evidence that market power eroded over time in steel products where mini-mill producers gained sizeable market share, highlighting the role of technology in the market as well.
Download or read book Steel Industry and Trade Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. steel industry has faced increasing difficulties since the late 1990s. More than 30 U.S. steel producers, including Bethlehem, LTV, National, and Wheeling Pittsburgh, have gone into bankruptcy and some have ceased operating. While different companies and parts of the industry have been affected to different degrees, active and retired steelworkers and their union representatives have become particularly concerned about the industry's possible inability to continue to fund pension and healthcare benefit commitments (an issue known as "legacy costs"). U.S. policymakers have responded with a variety of measures. The House of Representatives in early 1999 approved a bill that would have required the President to take measures that would have rolled back imports to a level prevailing before a 1997-98 import surge. The Clinton Administration responded with expedited enforcement of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as a Section 201 trade case focused on wire rod and line pipe products. The 106th Congress also approved and President Clinton signed laws to establish a steel loan guarantee program and to distribute to petitioners penalty duties from antidumping and antisubsidy trade cases, including those involving steel. These measures did not prevent a new downturn in the domestic industry in 2001. In the 107th Congress, a broader version of the 1999 import quota bill was reintroduced and gained a majority of the House as co-sponsors. Pressed to act by Members of Congress, steel companies and labor representatives, President Bush in June 2001 requested the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to undertake a broad Section 201 trade investigation on the steel industry. The ITC decided that a substantial part of the industry is being injured by increased imports and recommended relief measures to President Bush. President Bush on March 5, 2002, decided to impose three-year remedy tariffs with top rates of 30%. Some Members of Congress, economists and representatives of steel-consuming industries have expressed concerns that measures to aid the industry will have a negative impact on the competitiveness of a broad range of U.S. businesses. Supporters of government assistance for legacy cost relief have introduced legislation, now that President Bush has acted on remedy tariffs under Section 201. The Section 201 trade case is one element of an Administration strategy concerning steel, which includes a multilateral international negotiation on global overcapacity in the steel industry and future rules for world steel trade. U.S. and other countries' negotiators have discussed worldwide capacity reductions in the forum of the OECD steel committee in Paris, and have so far offered possible cuts of more than 100 million metric tons by 2005. Meanwhile, U.S. trading partners are challenging the Section 201 measures under WTO rules. This report examines the recent performance of the U.S. steel industry, the Bush Administration Section 201 initiative, and measures in Congress addressing other aspects of problems in the steel industry. The report will be updated as events warrant.
Download or read book International Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growth Mechanisms and Sustainability written by Jun Ma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad investigation of various issues in East Asia’s steel industry since the 1980s, including international specialization and trade relations, the sustainable use of resources, technological innovations, and environmental mitigation, alongside a consideration of the rapid growth in Chinese steel industry. Using macro and firm-level data, and case studies based on field research to discuss issues concerning the steel industry in East Asia. In search of an easy understanding, we try to simplify complicated economic models and statistical analyses, and concentrate on policy implications based as much as possible on the results of empirical analyses. We believe that this book will be of interest to policymakers, economists, practitioners and advocates of sustainability.
Download or read book U S Trade Problems in Steel written by A. W. Harris and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Steel Trade written by Peter Fish and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 1995-02-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a basic guide to the iron and steel industry in a single convenient reference source. The origins of steel and its manufacture are explained first, with a basic outline of the principal steel grades. The author then goes on to look at production and consumption and its commercial significance. He also analyses the global trade in steel and shows its importance to the metals industry as alloying elements and coatings. The final section considers the future for steel, the changing trade patterns, environmental issues and the threat of substitutes to the industry.
Download or read book Steel Industry written by Stephen Cooney and published by Novinka Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steel prices remain at historically elevated levels. The rapid growth of steel production and demand in China is widely considered as a major cause of the increases in both steel prices and the prices of steel-making inputs. Steel companies have achieved much greater pricing power, in part through an ongoing consolidation of the industry. Most of the integrated side of the industry, nearly half of U.S. production, is controlled by just two companies: U.S. Steel, the traditional industry leader, and Mittal Steel, itself the result of multiple international mergers. Moreover, Mittal in 2006 merged with the global number-two producer, Arcelor. Nucor and Gerdau have been active major consolidators of U.S. minimill production. U.S. steel production in 2005 was 104.6 million tons, a 5% decline from the high level of 2004. The net decline in output was mainly on the integrated side of the industry, which has continuously lost share. Imports also fell from the high level of 2004, although they rebounded by nearly 50% in early 2006. Input prices, especially ferrous scrap and iron ore, remain high and have contributed to higher production costs, which have been largely passed along to industrial consumers. The growth of China contributed to a large increase in demand for both steel and steel-making inputs. China has become both the world's largest steel-maker and steel consumer. This new book presents the latest analyses on this critical industry.
Download or read book Import Relief for the Specialty Steel Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Steel Trade written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
