In his question for the record (QFR) to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AR) pressed USTR on how it is working with the Commerce Department and the White House to address the excess foreign steel capacity and the resulting increase in steel imports to the United States, which he charged are unfairly traded. Griffin noted that Turkey and Mexico have taken over 20 percent of the U.S. reinforcing bar market since 2010 and charged that U.S. producers of oil country tubular goods (OCTGs) are not getting the relief they need. This is an apparent reference to the preliminary finding by Commerce in an antidumping (AD) investigation that pipe and tube by Korea is not being dumped, and that Turkey's pipe and tube exports are not being unfairly subsidized.
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