Association to protect steel firms from import restrictionsVietnam Steel Association (VSA) is co-ordinating with relevant agencies to take timely measures and minimise the risks of a new proposal of the United States on import duties for steel. The move comes after US President Donald Trump said last Thursday he would formally announce import duties of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium this week. VSA said it would take up the United States’ restriction on steel imports at the World Trade Organisation, if needed. A VSA representative said the association and other steel enterprises expected to get the support of the Vietnamese Government through negotiations on the Viet Nam-US Bilateral Trade Agreement and would request the United States not to apply the import restrictions to Vietnamese steel. On February 16, US Secretary Wilbur Ross released reports of investigations by the US Department of Commerce into the impact on national security from the import of steel mill products and wrought and unwrought aluminium from Viet Nam and other countries exporting steel to the United States.