USTR: Global steel forum report misses mark, fails to address 'root causes'

The final report of the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity, issued to G20 ministers in Berlin today, falls short in key areas, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative contends, and won't pre-empt the Trump administration from taking other “lawful action” to protect the U.S. industry. Jamieson Greer, the USTR chief of staff, knocked the report issued at the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity ministerial for failing to call out the “recurring failure” of some countries to implement...