STEEL INDUSTRY: The effect of the toxic combination of IMPORT DUTIES and AMSA's INABILITY TO SUPPLY THE STEEL DOWNSTREAM

The effect of the
toxic combination of
IMPORT DUTIES
and
AMSA’s INABILITY TO SUPPLY

THE STEEL DOWNSTREAM

Below are business responses

• We supply surface finishing and electroplating chemistry and find that our customers are encountering stoppages due to no steel.

• We struggle to get material, therefore we do not get orders.

• Our company has been very badly impacted as 95% of our works requires steel piping especially.

• The raw material is difficult to source, and when a supplier does have stock they ask very inflated prices.

• Unable to source correct quantities, size, and specification materials – no stock and no support from AMSA.

• Many suppliers quote on RFQs, yet on purchase orders, they do not have stock. We are paying 30 – 40% more in order for us to fill legal and commercial binding undertakings.

• Our business has had to downsize from 7 to 2 people.

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Regards

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