"With this decision, the USA has largely sealed itself off from the rest of the world," Hans Juergen Kerkhoff, the association's president, said in a statement, adding there was a risk that steel might now flood the European market.
"The European Union now needs to protect its local steel industry from the consequences of this protectionist U.S. policy in a comprehensive and effective way."
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz; Editing by Douglas Busvine)