Leading steel industry groups form American Scrap Coalition
Organizations representing 1,500 US steel scrap consuming companies have come together to form the American Scrap Coalition, an industry advocacy group which will campaign for more equitable trade policies for US ferrous scrap.
“Steel scrap trade does not occur on a level playing field,” said Alan Price, president of the American Scrap Coalition. Price is a partner at Wiley Rein in Washington, which serves as counsel to the Coalition. “More than 20 countries, including Brazil, Russia, India and China, have enacted a series of barriers to scrap trade in order to protect their domestic steel industries,” he added.
The Coalition, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit corporation, is a successor to the Emergency Steel Scrap Coalition, which formed in 2004 to address scrap export and price issues and to advocate for controls on exports of domestic steel scrap. Founding members of the American Scrap Coalition include the Steel Manufacturers Association, the American Foundry Society, and the National
Precast Concrete Association. In all, more than 1,500 companies are members of these associations.
The newly formed organization, focused on ferrous scrap, plans to call on Congress, the US Trade Representative and the Commerce Department to immediately address scrap trade barriers.
Price said the Coalition is more interested in fighting trade barriers than in trying to restrict US export flows. “The new group is focused on getting other nations to open their markets,” he said. “The prior group was really more focused on restraining US ferrous scrap exports.” He said the Coalition would sooner see other nations abolish market controls than initiate them in the US.
The steel industry is lining up to support the Coalition’s agenda. “Many of our major trading partners maintain restrictions on their scrap exports, through quotas and other export restrictions,” said Thomas Danjczek, president of the Steel Manufacturers Association. “Our government should work
immediately to remove these barriers, using any and all means available.”
The Coalition says it has several priority issues, including identifying and removing barriers to trade in steel scrap, which hinder US companies and global competition; ensuring that scrap exports are not permitted as an easy way around state, federal, and international environmental obligations; and
considering actions by Congress, the Commerce Department and the Office of the
US Trade Representative to remove trade barriers.
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