IT is not uncommon for US steel manufacturers to call for imposition of duties against what are termed 'cheap imports' from countries which do not respect or believe in the principle of competing on 'a level- playing field', and consequently deserve to be penalised. Not surprisingly for insiders in the steel industry, USA's largest steel producer, US Steel joined forces with eight other domestic steel manufacturers and filed formal complaints against the free import of tubes for the oil and natural gas sector arriving from nine countries that include South Korea, India and the Philippines.
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