{"id":948102,"date":"2026-10-27T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948102\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:52:14","slug":"american-steel-not-overseas-dumping-dominates-canadian-imports-trade-data-shows-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948102\/","title":{"rendered":"American steel \u2014 not overseas dumping \u2014 dominates Canadian imports, trade data shows \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal trade figures show American steel makes up more than half of Canada\u2019s imports of galvanized and coated steel, complicating Cleveland-Cliffs\u2019 argument that an influx of cheap overseas steel is one of the top causes of Stelco layoffs.<\/p>\n

Global Affairs Canada steel import data shows that 54.1 per cent of the country\u2019s 625,726 tonnes of galvanized and coated steel sheet imports during the first nine months of 2026 came from the United States.<\/p>\n

Stelco owner Cleveland-Cliffs has blamed the idling of its Hamilton, Ont., steel plant partly on what it describes as dumped overseas steel imports in Canada, arguing that Ottawa\u2019s trade protections have failed to create a viable market for Canadian producers.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStelco’s Hamilton operations steel production facility is pictured from across the Hamilton Harbour in Burlington, Ont., on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nick Iwanyshyn<\/p>\n

Colin Mang, assistant professor of economics at McMaster University, says the claim that offshore steel is being dumped into Canada does not reflect the latest trade figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He says much of the imported steel comes from the United States and that import prices of galvanized and coated steel have actually risen over the last several months.<\/p>\n

Still, Mang says Canada continues to import large quantities of steel even as domestic demand weakens, putting additional pressure on Canadian producers already struggling with declining exports to the United States.<\/p>\n

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves has argued that Canada\u2019s galvanized steel market is too small to accommodate two domestic producers alongside what he called \u201can avalanche of imports.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In an Oct. 9 letter to Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly, Stelco president and general counsel Paul Simon blamed the company\u2019s difficulties in part on the \u201cmarket-depressing impact of dumped, offshore imports\u201d and U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n

Simon acknowledged that Ottawa\u2019s steel import restrictions, introduced in June 2025 and strengthened in December, had reduced some overseas imports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he argued they had done little to protect the cold-rolled and coated steel products manufactured at Stelco\u2019s Hamilton finishing operations.<\/p>\n

In response, Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly pointed to federal measures restricting overseas steel imports in an Oct. 22 letter to Stelco, including tighter quotas introduced in December 2025. Imports from the United States and Mexico remain exempt from those restrictions.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal trade figures show American steel makes up more than half of Canada\u2019s imports of galvanized and coated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-948102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}