US tube mills consider trade petition: Vallourec

Nov 09, 2012 | 08:44 AM | Michael Cowden

Tags  Vallourec, Philippe Crouzet, trade petition, welded tube, energy tubulars, U.S. Steel, Tenaris, steel tube steel pipe

CHICAGO — Vallourec SA executives confirmed that mills in the United States are considering a possible trade petition against welded energy tubulars from South Korea, and potentially other nations as well.

"It is a fact that the U.S. domestic industry—and we are part of it—is working on such a case, which could ... happen early in 2013," Vallourec chairman and chief....





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