But about 40 percent of those shipments are for hot-rolled steel, the lowest grade.
The work consists of four 2-inch-thick gentle curves of hot-rolled steel, each 55 feet long and more than 13 feet high.
A new cold war has broken out between Russia and the United States, this time over hot-rolled steel.
Russia is not the biggest exporter of hot-rolled steel to the United States.
In return, the Commerce Department said it would not impose penalty tariffs on hot-rolled steel.
In addition, many customers stocked up on hot-rolled steel in advance of a 5 percent increase on Jan 1, analysts said.
It employs 2,200 workers and is a major supplier of hot-rolled steel to customers in the West.
Today's action covers only hot-rolled steel.
We agreed with the industry two years ago that we had an overcapacity of some 19 million tonnes of hot-rolled steel.
"We have seen some softness in our order rate with respect to certain of our products," including structural and hot-rolled steel, he told a news conference.
