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Aug 2018
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Steel
(The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)
India is being hit by a wave
of steel from producers in Japan and South Korea, a government document showed,
as mills there redirect supply after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped an
import duty on the alloy earlier this year.
During the first quarter of the fiscal year starting in
April, India’s steel imports from South Korea rose 31 percent from a year
earlier, while those from Japan climbed 30 percent, according to an internal
document from the Ministry of Steel that was reviewed by Reuters.
The flood of imports is so big that the government in New
Delhi is considering measures to control imports, Minister Chaudhary Birender
Singh told Reuters. The Total Investment
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“The concern is there, of course, and
if we are to take some measures, we will not hesitate on that account,” Singh
said in an interview. The Total Investment
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Between April and June, India became a net importer of
steel, with foreign supplies reaching 2.1 million tonnes, 15 percent higher
than a year earlier, according to the note.
With the increase, the South Asian nation has now passed
the United States as South Korea’s third-largest market for steel, according to
data from the Korea Iron & Steel Association.
New Delhi could look at imposing safeguards, said a
senior government official, who did not wish to be identified in line with
government policy. Under World Trade Organization rules, safeguards are
temporary restrictions on imports of a product to protect a domestic industry. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
However, renewed government measures would take place
despite India’s domestic steel industry being unable to meet the country’s
demand for high-end steel products needed for railroads and structural steel
used in construction projects.
India’s imports of steel products used by railways rose
to more than 18,000 tonnes during the April to June period compared with 500
tonnes a year earlier, the Steel Ministry note said.
Imports of steel products used in construction more than
doubled to nearly 22,000 tonnes during the same period, the note said.
The United States imposed tariffs of 25 percent on steel
and 10 percent on aluminium imports in March. South Korea was the
fourth-biggest steel exporter to the United States and Japan the 10th largest,
the Steel Ministry said in a report in April.
Indian steel manufacturers are also impacted by the
tariffs and the country will retaliate with duties on U.S. products that will
take effect next month.The Total Investment
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