translated from Spanish: Usa. U.S. imposes tariffs on Mexico and China steel

Mexico.- By release, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced on Wednesday that it imposed tariffs on Chinese and Mexican structural steel after preliminaryly determining that producers in both countries violated local laws Antidumping.
As a result, the Commerce Department said, it imposed tariffs of up to 141% on Chinese structural steel and up to 31% on Mexican steel. The entity added that Canada did not violate anti-dumping steel laws.
The U.S. government further said it found that imports of Canadian-made structural steel did not violate U.S. anti-dumping laws.
Most Chinese steel products have been excluded from the U.S. market by previous Commerce Department anti-dumping rules and by President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff.
The Department of Commerce found that a Chinese producer, Modern Heavy Industries (Taicang) Co Ltd, did not sell under costs products in the United States, but imposed dumping rates of 52% on Wison (Nanton) Heavy Industry Co Ltd and up to 141% on other manufacturers Chinese.
In 2018, U.S. imports of manufactured structural steel were valued at $722.5 million from Canada, $897.5 million from China, and $622.4 million from Mexico, Commerce said.

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