BlueScope Steel, the Glenbrook steel mill operator, has lost a bid to end or narrow a $506 million court action taken by the unsuccessful bidder for the Taharoa iron sands mine near Kawhia

A steel quality expert is questioning whether the rules are tight enough around thousands of tonnes of
Chinese steel going into the country's tallest residential skyscraper.

New Zealand Steel's lawyers, who are trying to have a government decision not to tax
Chinese steel imports overturned by the …

New Zealand Steel wants the High Court to overturn a decision by the government not to tax Chinese steel
imports, which the firm says flooded the local market and cut into profits

^{Apr 27 -}  Related building products companies Timber King and NZ Steel Distributor
have been fined $400,950 after pleading guilty to making false and misleading
representations about their steel mesh products used to strengthen buildings

Mar 20, 2018 - Restructuring at Pacific Steel and weak global demand rather than the behaviour of Chinese rivals squeezed the company's margins, says an officials' report that recommended the government reject its dumping complaints for the second time.

US President Donald Trump has imposed controversial orders imposing heavy tariffs on steel and aluminium - but some countries will be spared reports RadioNZ this morning.

Trump is is coming under intense pressure from US business interests, foreign trading partners and international trade organisations to pull back from his tariff plan.

President Trump has finally done it. After nearly a year of threatening to upend global trade, he has announced sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum writes Heather Long in The Washington Post.

Dec 11, 2017  _  The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment says there are no grounds to impose provisional measures to protect steel products makers while it investigates claims subsidised Chinese rivals are damaging the local industry.  In August, MBIE launched an investigation into steel reinforcing bar and coil (rebar) from the China after Pacific Steel NZ claimed government-subsidised rebar imports from China are causing material injury to Pacific Steel through price undercutting, price depression and price suppression. Pacific Steel is the sole producer of rebar in New Zealand and is a wholly owned subsidiary of New Zealand Steel Holdings whose parent company is ASX-listed BlueScope Steel.