Steel Shipments on the Rise While Aluminum Declines

As readers of Connecting the Dots may recall, last year the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative tasked the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) with conducting an investigation into, and issuing a public report on, the […] Read More

As Connecting the Dots has noted several times over the last two months, an important piece of tax legislation that would positively impact the industrial metals industry has been stuck in the U.S. Senate. Now […] Read More

On Tuesday, April 9 the U.S. House of Representatives voted 378-26 to approve H.R. 6655, the Stronger Workforce for America Act, which would reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and modernize the country’s […] Read More

On April 10 on a 50-48 vote, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution that, if signed into law by President Joe Biden, would overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) joint employer rule. As a […] Read More

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that, due to the number of lawsuits filed against its climate disclosure rule, it has halted implementation of the regulation. The SEC said this pause would […] Read More