The Kryvyi Rih Mining and Metallurgical Plant PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (AMKR, Dnipropetrovsk region) will raise prices for its rebar and wire rod by $50/ton starting in March this year.
According to a press release issued by the company on Wednesday, the main reason for this move is the extremely high cost of electricity in Ukraine. Electricity prices have continued to rise rapidly in recent years, making them the highest in Europe and seriously affecting production costs.
At the same time, it is noted that in the second quarter of 2024, the average price of electricity reached about $120 per MWh (including delivery costs, excluding VAT), which forced the company to urgently appeal to the Ukrainian government for help in curbing it. Since then, prices have continued to rise, reaching around $230 in February 2026 and exceeding $370 per MWh during peak hours.
“This unprecedented increase in the cost of electricity is forcing the company to take urgent measures to ensure the economic viability of its operations,” the press release explains.
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is the largest producer of rolled steel in Ukraine. It specializes in the production of long products, in particular, rebar and wire rod. The company has a full production cycle, with production capacities designed for an annual output of over 6 million tons of steel, more than 5 million tons of rolled products, and over 5.5 million tons of pig iron.
ArcelorMittal owns Ukraine’s largest mining and metallurgical complex, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, and a number of small companies, including ArcelorMittal Beryslav.
The U.S. Department of Commerce (U.S. Department of Commerce) has maintained the existing anti-dumping duties on construction steel rebar from Ukraine, Belarus, Indonesia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland and China.
According to the Ministry of Commerce in the Federal Register on December 13 this year, such conclusions are contained in the findings of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) dated December 10, 2024, following the fourth five-year review of the duties.
The document emphasizes that the USITC believes that the elimination of duties on rebar from Belarus, China, Indonesia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine “is likely to result in continued or recurring material injury to the U.S. industry within a reasonable foreseeable time.”
It is specified that the Commission decided to conduct the review of the duties on November 1, 2023. Hearings on this topic were held on October 3, 2024.
As reported, on November 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce published information on the initiative of the fourth review of anti-dumping duties on rebar from seven countries.
The amount of the duty on the supply of Ukrainian reinforcing bars (Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars) to the US market since their introduction (2002) is 41.69%.
It was also reported that in mid-2000, the Rebar Trade Action Coalition (RTAC), an association of American producers of iron bars, and its individual members, Ameri Steel (Tampa, FL), Auburn Steel Co, Inc. (Auburn, NY), Birmingham Steel Corp. (Birmingham, AL), Border Steel, Inc. (El Paso, TX), CMC Steel Group (Seguin, TX), Marion Steel Co. (Marion, OH), Nucor Steel (Darlington, SC) and Riverview Steel (Glassport, PA) – filed a petition with the International Trade Commission to initiate an anti-dumping investigation against imports of these products, in particular from Ukraine.
The Ukrainian respondent in this investigation was Kryvorizhstal, which was later acquired by Mittal Steel, renamed ArcelorMittal.
In mid-2001, the Commission recognized that rebar supplies, in particular from Ukraine, were harming U.S. producers of similar products by supplying them at dumped prices, and in 2002 an anti-dumping duty of 41.69% was imposed.
Under US law, anti-dumping duties are reviewed every five years.
“ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is the largest rolled steel producer in Ukraine. It specializes in long products, including rebar and wire rod.
