Latest Steel Industry News
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- Winners and losers: US importers adapt to steel tariffs
Winners and losers: US importers adapt to steel tariffs
27.08.2025Steel importers in the United States are adapting their supply chains to maintain shipments above two million tonnes per month, despite the country’s stringent import tariffs. - CBAM uncertainty Northern Europe’s main coil price stimulus
CBAM uncertainty Northern Europe’s main coil price stimulus
22.08.2025Northern Europe’s mills and stockists fear that demand will not support an uptick in coil prices before the end of 2025. - Lobbying intensifies on Europe’s trade defence measures
Lobbying intensifies on Europe’s trade defence measures
20.08.2025Divisions are growing between Europe’s steelmakers and importers amid lobbying of the European Commission on the future of the bloc’s trade defence measures. - Less than one month to go: MEPS at UK Metals Expo 2025
Less than one month to go: MEPS at UK Metals Expo 2025
12.08.2025MEPS International is poised to share insight into a steel market “at a turning point” with an expanded presence at the annual UK Metals Expo 2025, next month. - MEPS’s global steel production and capacity round-up
MEPS’s global steel production and capacity round-up
31.07.2025MEPS’s steelmaking capacity round-up detailed AcelorMittal’s delayed decarbonisation projects in Germany and new trade defence developments in the United Kingdom, EU and Taiwan, this month. - US trade talks deadline unlikely to end steel tariff turmoil
US trade talks deadline unlikely to end steel tariff turmoil
31.07.2025Stainless steel importers in the United States do not believe that the August 1 deadline for international trade negotiations will end market uncertainty or ease their supply issues. - EU-US deal places ‘huge burden’ on steel sector
EU-US deal places ‘huge burden’ on steel sector
29.07.2025An unchanged 50% tariff on steel and 15% tariffs on steel-intensive products shipped to the United States mean that the new EU-US trade deal will place a “huge burden” on Europe’s steel industry, Eurofer claims. - Acquisitions to end Liberty Steel era at two EU sites
Acquisitions to end Liberty Steel era at two EU sites
25.07.2025Acquisition offers for Liberty Steel’s Dudelange (Luxembourg) and Ostrava (Czechia) operations appear likely to end a prolonged period of uncertainty about their future. - Red Sea attacks stall return of safe shipping routes
Red Sea attacks stall return of safe shipping routes
24.07.2025The sinking of two cargo vessels in the Red Sea ended steel importers’ earlier hopes that the busy shipping route’s return to normal service would reduce steel transport costs this summer. - EU opens consultation on future steel import safeguards
EU opens consultation on future steel import safeguards
21.07.2025The European Commission followed the UK in opening a consultation on legislation that will replace the existing steel import safeguard mechanisms, which will expire on June 30, 2026. - UK steel importers angered by tighter trade defence measures
UK steel importers angered by tighter trade defence measures
18.07.2025Steel importers in the United Kingdom expressed anger about the sudden application of stringent new trade defence measures when talking to MEPS researchers this month. - Uncertainty over new tariffs ‘killing’ US steel demand
Uncertainty over new tariffs ‘killing’ US steel demand
15.07.2025President Trump’s announcement of potential new tariffs that exceed the initial “reciprocal” rates unveiled on April 2’s Liberation Day has increased uncertainty in the US steel market and the risks to global trade.
