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USW Decries Trade Commission Decision Revoking Orders on Unfairly Traded Steel Imports

For Immediate Release                                     December 14, 2006

Pittsburgh – The United Steelworkers severely criticized the decision handed down today by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to revoke antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of certain steel products from all countries currently covered except Germany and Korea.

“Today the Commission turned a blind eye to the unfair trade practices harming our steel industry,” declared USW President Leo W. Gerard. “Their decision upends important orders that have helped counteract unfair trade practices and kept good steelworker jobs here in the United States.” 

Gerard said, “We appreciate the important orders kept in place, but wiping out the rest of these orders will force us to compete with dumped and subsidized imports and puts the industry’s ability to continue investing in the future very much at risk.”

The Commission’s vote revoked orders on imports of corrosion-resistant steel from Australia, Canada,