Donald Trump doubles the duties on the imports of steel and aluminum, bringing them to 50%. The announcement arrives on the occasion of the visit to the US Steel plant, in Pennsylvania where the American president also promotes a partnership between the American steel mill and the Japanese Nippon Steel.
“We will bring the duties on steel from 25 to 50% and this will make the steel industry even safer,” says Trump during the rally. The new rates will start from Wednesday 4 June He then writes the number one of the White House on his Truth platform. “It is a great honor for me – it claims on social networks – increase the duties on steel and aluminum from 25 to 50%, starting from Wednesday 4 June. Our steel industries and aluminum are recovering as never before. This will be another great news for our wonderful steel and aluminum workers. We make America again! ».
Trump, therefore, from Pennsylvania defends (and relaunches) his commercial policy, supporting – in front of the workers – that the duties contributed to protecting the Pittsburgh steel factory. The US Steel plant “would not exist, if I had not imposed duties also on the imports of metals during my first administration”, says the American president.
Trump then underlines that, despite the recently announced partnership with the Nippon Steel, “Us Steel will continue to be controlled by the United States” and ensures that “there will be no layoffs or deceptions of jobs because of the agreement”.
A bipartisan ‘Bipartisan’ political wall ‘had risen against the proposal for the sale of Us Stel Steel for 14.9 billion dollars So much so that former president Joe Biden had blocked the agreement for national security reasons just before leaving his assignment. However, the terms of the new agreement remain unclear. The United Steelworkers union (USW), which represents thousands of workers in the US Steel factories said last Wednesday that the announcement of the “partnership continues to raise more questions than answers”.
«Nippon continues to argue that it would invest in the US Steel factories only if they had owned 100%. We have not seen anything in the reports indicating a change of this kind, “the union underlined.