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Wednesday, 05 July 17
TROUBLE SEEMS TO BE LOOMING ONCE MORE IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY - GEORGE LAZARIDIS
 Trouble seems to be looming once more in the steel industry as US President Trump puts forth his plans for specialist protectionist measures for the badly weathered US steel industry.
According to George Lazaridis Head of Market Research & Asset Valuations of Allied shipping, this latest push has been based on a Cold War-era trade law that would allow him to restrict imports of any goods or in this case commodity, which is deemed to be critical to national defense. As far back as April, the new administration took steps to launch a special investigation into steel imports so as to ascertain whether under the 1962 law conditions were met to justify a limit to imports under the pretense of a threat to the country ’s security.
The Allied weekly report further noted that, with this backing, it looks as though the Trump administration is now set on course to impose such quotas and tariffs and to make matter worse it could in effect cherry pick particular exporters and in effect freeze any further imports from those locations of origin. As expected this came under a “fire barrage” at the World Trade Organization on Friday, with some of the most prominent countries to be affected, namely China, the European Union, Brazil, Australia, Taiwan, and Russia, raising serious concerns.
George Lazaridis further said in its report, It seems as though we are now in the midst of a potential trade war, as countries take steps to retaliate in the case that the proposed protectionist measure is implemented. At the same time, it will be one of the biggest tests for the global trade referee, namely the World Trade Organization, which will face a difficult choice with either siding bringing with it potential fallout.
According to him, a ruling against the US could be a huge blow to the WTO’s credibility and power if the US were to choose to ignore the decision, while siding with the US would open the door for all WTO members to invoke similar reasoning behind the choice to bring forth taxes and quotes as they please. The potential fallout would not be just limited to the WTO, with the US likely to do more harm than good to its own economy, as other countries take on options to impose their own trade restrictions on steel imports or to retaliate against the US in other ways. What’s more is that this could not have unraveled at the worst time, as iron ore had been managing to show a glimpse of a recovery rally in its price up from its low of US$ 54 in mid-June to a recent high of US$ 64.3 on Thursday. This has also been evident from the recent pick-up in trade activity, with Cape size freight rates having shown positive movements in the second half of June (with the only exception being the final days of the month were a small downward correction started to show face).
The difficulties being faced in the global trade of steel and iron ore, however, go way beyond this most recent episode. The market has been plagued by a glut in supply for several years now and in part, China has played a major role in this. In fact, this recent decision by the US to find a way to pass such trade restrictions seemly to be mainly as a way to target China and its flow of cheap steel products. Given that the problem is still there, whether or not Trump manages to pass and impose his restrictions means that we are likely to face a downward correction in steel production and iron ore trade at some point, that is only if we were to suddenly see a spur in consumption that could in effect quickly absorbed most of the excess being produced. India could be such a success story with its need for large-scale industrial expansion, however even if we were to see such an Indian economic miracle, this would most likely be fueled by its own quickly expanding steel producing industry.
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Tuesday, 20 June 17
WORLD ECONOMY SHOWS A MORE OPTIMISTIC TREND
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Monday, 19 June 17
PANAMAX RATES HELP BALTIC INDEX TO A POSITIVE MOVE
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Friday, 16 June 17
WEEKLY U.S. COAL PRODUCTION RISES; UP 24.1% Y/Y
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Thursday, 15 June 17
SUPRAMAX NICKEL ORE FROM PHILIPPINES TO S. CHINA PAYING AROUND MID $10000 - FEARNLEYS
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Wednesday, 14 June 17
WORLD COAL PRODUCTION FELL BY 6.2%, THE LARGEST ANNUAL DECLINE ON RECORD - BP
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