Nature
Due to an excess of supply in the steel industry, protectionist trade laws are enacted, mainly against developing countries, in the hopes of curtailing over-production while maintaining jobs in the steel sector of the industrialized countries. These protectionist laws (some are under the guise of "voluntary limits") are more favourable to the large, wealthy nations, and hinder the economic development of the smaller, poorer countries.
Counter-claim
In the USA alone in 1980-1984, 40,000 steel jobs were lost and 210,000 more were threatened because of the availability of much less expensive imported steel. In the ten years between 1973 and 1983, steel production in the USA and the UK declined by 44% for each, while it declined by 37% in Belgium and Luxembourg and 30% in France. During that same period, steel production increased by 65% in Romania, 105% in Brazil, and 930% in South Korea. Why should so many workers in the industrialized nations forfeit their jobs in order to keep production down, if the non-industrialized nations continue to over-produce ?