By Maytaal Angel and Yuka Obayashi LONDON/TOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Spurred by a steel-price rally, firms are pouring money into new plants that are set to start producing just as growth in demand for the construction material shrinks, industry executives say, challenging the market’s prevailing bull narrative.

By Maytaal Angel LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Chinese-owned Tsingshan, the world’s top stainless steelmaker, is prepared to offer fixed-priced long-term contracts that have no alloy surcharge - a move that could change the way the metal is priced globally, an industry veteran told Reuters.

By Maytaal Angel LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Washington’s tariffs on steel imports have prompted warnings of an earnings hit for European producers, but for companies such as ArcelorMittal with operations in increasingly protected markets, levies are expected to yield a profit bonanza.

By Christoph Steitz, Tom Käckenhoff and Maytaal Angel FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF/LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - Top managers at Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel have reached out to the European Commission to seek approval for a landmark joint venture deal, with legal experts and analysts saying they might have to sell assets to get it.

By Tom Kaeckenhoff, Arno Schuetze, Christoph Steitz and Maytaal Angel DUESSELDORF/FRANKFURT/LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel are nearing a 15 billion euro ($17.4 billion) deal this week to combine their European assets into a global steel giant, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.

By Maytaal Angel, Clara Denina and Promit Mukherjee LONDON/MUMBAI, June 21 (Reuters) - India’s biggest steelmaker JSW Steel (JSTL.NS) is expected to make a bid for ArcelorMittal’s (MT.AS) Galati plant in Romania, three sources told Reuters, potentially competing against Ukraine’s Metinvest and Italy’s Marcegaglia.

By Maytaal Angel, Christoph Steitz and Tom Käckenhoff LONDON/FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, June 11 (Reuters) - Tata Steel’s European works council said it is unconvinced by a planned joint venture with Thyssenkrupp, raising the chances that the deal will be delayed or even fail in its current form.

By Maytaal Angel LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. government moves to negotiate steel import quotas with its allies in exchange for tariff exemptions could leave them worse off than countries who have to pay the levy.

By Maytaal Angel LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - An abundance of stainless steel in China following the ramp up of new production in Indonesia is threatening stainless mills globally and the nickel producers that supply them.

By Maytaal Angel, Euan Rocha and Christoph Steitz LONDON/MUMBAI/FRANKFURT, April 6 (Reuters) - Tata Steel Ltd would consider taking a majority stake in its planned European steel joint venture with Germany’s Thyssenkrupp AG after the business has publicly listed, according to two people familiar with the matter.

By Maytaal Angel, LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - The prospect of 25 percent U.S. tariffs on steel imports has raised fears of a global trade war but steel producers outside North America believe they can weather the storm without too much disruption to their business or steel prices.

By Maytaal Angel, LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Tata Steel will finance the repair of a blast furnace at Britain’s largest steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales, extending its life by seven years and soothing concerns about its commitment to Europe’s steel sector, four sources told Reuters.

By Maytaal Angel, MILAN, Dec 22 (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal has reached a preliminary agreement to sell its steel mill in Piombino, Italy to Italian steelmaker Arvedi to help get clearance from EU authorities for its purchase of Ilva, Europe’s largest steel plant.

By Maytaal Angel LONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The European Union’s anti-fraud office (OLAF) said it has found Chinese steel was shipped through Vietnam to evade the bloc’s tariffs.

By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) - The global steel sector’s recovery from a glut-fuelled slump, driven by Chinese capacity cuts, is being put at risk by surplus capacity being built in the Middle East and Asia, sources and experts say.

By Maytaal Angel and Christoph Steitz LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Plagued by poor earnings, Britain’s biggest steel plant, located in Port Talbot, is likely to be first in line for job and output cuts after the planned European merger of Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) and Tata Steel (TISC.NS), industry sources told Reuters.

By Maytaal Angel and David Lawder LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is still expected to impose steel import tariffs on national security grounds despite the delay of a probe into the matter and pursuit of multilateral talks to reduce excess capacity, industry players and trade experts say.

By Maytaal Angel, Edward Taylor and Carolyn Cohn LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp’s (TKAG.DE) chief executive is pushing for a deal to fold its steel operations into a joint venture with India’s Tata Steel (TISC.NS) as early as September, after two years of talks, sources told Reuters.

By Maytaal Angel and Tom Miles LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose steel import tariffs for national security reasons would likely trigger a swift “safeguard” action by the European Union, political and industry sources said.

Tom Miles, Maytaal Angel GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - G20 leaders will discuss steel overcapacity at this week’s summit in Germany, European officials said, as tensions rise over U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to use a Cold War-era law to restrict steel imports for national security reasons.