Domestic Tin Mill Plant Closing After ITC Decision on AD/CVD
The International Trade Commission's finding that imported tin mill products aren't being illegally dumped or subsidized (see 2402060063) is to blame for Cleveland-Cliffs' decision to indefinitely close operations at its Weirton, West Virginia, tinplate facility, according to United Steelworkers President David McCall. Cleveland-Cliffs on Feb. 15 announced the closure, also blaming the ITC ruling.
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"The current market for tin mill products has already been decimated by over 50 percent penetration of illegally dumped foreign tinplate. Now, with the idling of tinplate production in Weirton, unfair trade is one step closer to choking out our domestic industry entirely," McCall said in an emailed press release. "The short-term thinking of American tinplate consumers, who sided with the foreign cheaters to oppose our petition, will eventually lead to long-term regrets."
McCall said it "should be obvious that foreign suppliers are destroying our domestic supply chain so that American consumers of tin mill products become dependent on foreign producers and have no options when their subsidized and dumped products are no longer available at cheap prices."
The plant shuttering takes place at the beginning of the second quarter, in April.