Metals Service Center Institute

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill MSCI Metals Activity for April 2026 shows year-over-year increases in service center shipments across both steel and aluminum in the U.S. and Canada. U.S. steel shipments rose 2.6% from April 2025 on a seasonally adjusted basis, while aluminum shipments increased 6.7%. In Canada, steel shipments increased 11.3% compared to April 2025, and aluminum shipments increased 32.2%.

“Our strength as an institution has always been our people.” Doug Bird, Head of School, Culver Academy I graduated from Culver in 1974, 52 years after my father received his diploma in 1922. Culver is a special place for me. Not only did I spend my formative high school years there learning fundamental leadership skills and values, my parents are buried in the cemetery near Lake Maxincuckee. Like the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), Culver is not just an institution. It is a community.

On May 17, U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) released a bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill that will provide funding certainty and support investment in U.S. roads, bridges, rail systems, and other infrastructure projects. Passage of this legislation is a key priority for the industrial metals and manufacturing industries since the existing authorization expires on Sept. 30, 2026.

The Metals Service Center Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a coalition of other trade associations submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on May 20 regarding the agencies’ guidance on business collaborations.

On May 14, the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) and more than 90 other trade associations sent a letter asking the federal government to support a U.S. Supreme Court review of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Specifically, the letter calls on the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Justice to back the two pending cert petitions currently before the Supreme Court — National Small Business United v. Bessent and Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met earlier this month in China and arrived an outline to address key trade priorities. In a fact sheet, the White House said the two leaders “agreed that the United States and China should build a constructive relationship of strategic stability on the basis of fairness and reciprocity.” As part of this agreement, the countries chartered two new institutions that are meant to optimize the bilateral economic relationship.

The European Commission, the European Union’s (EU) executive arm, has struck a provisional agreement regarding legislation to remove import duties on U.S. goods. According to CNBC, the agreement includes a safeguard mechanism that would allow the Commission to suspend tariff reductions in the event that U.S. imports harm European industries.

The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) continues to develop in-person and online content for member company employees, including a series of free, one-hour virtual webinars. Our online discussions can be accessed by anyone who works for a company that is part of the MSCI community — no matter where they are in the world or the title they hold in their company — they only need a company email address to create an account at www.MSCI.org.

President Donald Trump’s Section 122 global 10 percent tariffs earned a reprieve earlier this month from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). That court temporarily stayed an earlier ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) that had blocked the tariffs from being implemented against two companies and the state of Washington.