Ms Robin Wiener president of Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries said that she is pleased to see that the American Scrap Coalition has joined the bandwagon in support of the free and fair global trade of scrap, but seriously questions the coalition¡¯s underlying premise that steel scrap processing and consuming industries are facing a steel scrap export crisis.
Ms Wiener stated that ¡°Rather than a crisis, both the steel industry and the scrap industry are enjoying extraordinarily strong export markets due to the quick pace of global infrastructure development. In fact, finished steel exports alone have increased 81.5 percent since 2001.¡±