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Hexavalent chromium is added to alloy steel to increase corrosion resistance.

“There’s a run on steel,” said , owner of Ohio-based Allied Machine & Engineering Corp., which has imported specialty alloy steel from Western Europe for years.

Oil pipeline companies, which need special gathering lines, casings and tubing made of alloy steel, have no choice but to look overseas. according to John Stoody, vice president of the Association of Oil Pipe Lines.

International Trade Commission said on Friday it had made a final finding that the U.S. industry was being harmed by the dumping and subsidization of imports of carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from China.

On Tuesday, the European Commission imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of certain heavy plate of non-alloy or other alloy steel from China.