S. Korea pipe dumping costing U.S. jobs

WARREN

Illegal dumping of steel pipe by South Korea into the United States has cost the jobs of hundreds of steelworkers including 40 at Warren’s Wheatland Tube mill, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and company representatives charged today.

In a news conference inside the Dietz Road Northeast facility where pipes are produced for energy drilling, Brown criticized U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker for her previous ruling that cleared South Korean pipe producers of selling at artificially low prices to undercut American producers. Wheatland Tube, a division of JMC Steel, was among several steel companies including Youngstown’s Vallourec Star and Brookfield’s TMK IPSCO, which had unsuccessfully petitioned the Commerce Department to act against South Korea. Brown is among 57 U.S. Senators including Rob Portman (R-Ohio) who have appealed the ruling.

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