The U.S. ITC has determined that exports of steel wire rod from South Africa and Ukraine have injured U.S. industry, allowing the Commerce Department to apply duties. The case has been partly successful – imports from South Africa and Ukraine have been zero since August, but total imports only fell 15% in the fourth quarter on a year earlier. One complexity in this, and other cases going forward, is the overlap with the section 232 review of the industry more broadly. While that is designed to be additive, the as-yet-unknown implementation of tariffs or quotas in the section 232 review m...