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- MEPS debate: defending the UK’s steel industry
MEPS debate: defending the UK’s steel industry
11.09.2025MEPS’s carbon steel market panel discussion at the UK Metals Expo was dominated by debate about the sustainability of domestic steelmaking amid falling demand and rising imports. - Accurate steel prices bring clarity to uncertain market
Accurate steel prices bring clarity to uncertain market
09.09.2025Europe’s steel buyers are increasingly turning to accurate, independently researched price insight to gain a competitive advantage as they procure material in September. - UK government considers plan for domestic steelmaking
UK government considers plan for domestic steelmaking
08.09.2025Primary steelmaking facilities in the United Kingdom have become increasingly reliant on financial support from the UK government, this year, leading to calls for greater nationalisation of the domestic steel sector. - Reshaping UK steel: MEPS’s UK Metals Expo debates
Reshaping UK steel: MEPS’s UK Metals Expo debates
04.09.2025Experts from across the UK’s carbon steel and stainless steel supply chains have shared their views on a “tough period” for the sector, ahead of MEPS discussion panels at the UK Metals Expo 2025. - Podcast: Could UK Metals Expo bring ‘positive news’ for steel industry?
Podcast: Could UK Metals Expo bring ‘positive news’ for steel industry?
03.09.2025The UK Metals Expo could bring positivity to a sector challenged by difficult trading conditions, domestic steelmakers in crisis and divided opinions over trade defence. - Podcast: US steel demand ‘nowhere near’ prior expectations
Podcast: US steel demand ‘nowhere near’ prior expectations
02.09.2025MEPS International’s latest Market in Minutes podcast heard that steel demand was “nowhere near” US market participants’ earlier expectations, during August. - South Korean steelmakers retain hopes of US trade deal
South Korean steelmakers retain hopes of US trade deal
01.09.2025Hopes that recent trade discussions between United States and South Korea might deliver a reduction in the Trump administration’s 50% steel import tariffs appear to have come to nothing. - MEPS’s global steel production and capacity round-up
MEPS’s global steel production and capacity round-up
29.08.2025China’s rising steel production, new antidumping measures in Japan and South Korea and declining profits at EU steelmakers feature in this month’s MEPS steelmaking capacity round-up. - Trade defence consultation adds to stainless buyers’ hesitancy
Trade defence consultation adds to stainless buyers’ hesitancy
29.08.2025A European Commission consultation over a replacement for the current import safeguard measures has increased uncertainty among stainless steel buyers. - 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.
