...already under increased pressure from U.S. steel makers and their union to raise trade barriers to halt a flood of cheap imported steel. The Commerce Department last week issued a preliminary ruling that tariffs on certain types of steel from Japan...

...for April. The steel industry has been one of the hardest hit by the Asian crisis, suffering from a flood of cheaper imported steel. Steelmakers have petitioned the government for the imposition of penalty tariffs on the imported products and...

...House vote with the potent political argument that America's steel industry was being decimated by a flood of cheap imported steel. The steel quota bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, but its passage in the House sends a signal that...

...shipments of 16 other types of steel to 1997 levels. That was before the global financial crisis triggered a surge in cheap imported steel into the American market. The Clinton administration, struggling to deal with the political problems caused by...

...already under increased pressure from U.S. steel makers and their union to raise trade barriers to halt a flood of cheap imported steel. The Commerce Department last week issued a preliminary ruling that tariffs on certain types of steel from Japan...