Trump doubles steel tariffs to combat foreign market manipulation

President Donald Trump Now steel tariffs raised from 25% to 50%. This increase is definitely important to maintain the national security of the US steel industry and the United States.

This decision is not a moment soon. As long as the excavation of global steel, Hammer American manufacturers reached new heights and imports, the original 25% of the original 25% are not enough to maintain an industrial base by exporters related to Chinese state. A more powerful line should be pulled – and today’s action draws it.

When President Trump First, 232 tariffs were applied in 2018, immediately revived local steel investment. American steelers spat on expansion and modernization and modernization of production along critical product lines and spat on a modernized layer and corrosion resistant plate and a corrosion resistant plate for wire rod.

These investments were not speculative; It was based for national sustainability designed to provide internal self-sufficiency and restoring economic security.

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Until 2024, these investments had paid. US steel capacity Now the internal consumption is more than 19 million tons per year. After the product, the product can meet its own needs without trusting a ton of import. For example, the United States’s hot distribution capacity requirement is more than 18.1 million tons. A cold sheet? 13.2 million tons. Rebar? More than 1.5 million tons.

In short, American steel is fully capable of standing – if foreign trade abuses, it does not break it. Again, this is what happens.

More than 720 million metric tones, which are more than 720 million metric tons, are expected to be more than 720 million metric tones in 2027 – global steel.

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This Massive chinese discharge – What is better than the world of the world’s largest produced goods – to aggressively follow the US market share as Korean, Japan, Vietnam and UAE. There is no strange to empty themselves, these foreign manufacturers bradyly expressed costs for US mills “through” the existing 25% duties that have notified American customers.

The result was the flood of imported in numerous product lines. In the first part of 2025, the standard pipe imports from Vietnam increased by 160% compared to the same period in 2024. The oil pipe was imported from Vietnam 223%, 70% of Korea and 44% from Taiwan. Rebtar of import from Vietnam has doubled. The wire rod from Korea increased by 67%.

These are not normal market fluctuations; They are attacks on America’s steel support.

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Exactly the problem, some foreign suppliers now use fraud – falsify the invoice values Reduce tariff effects. This type of schemes are less profitable and easy to detect by increasing the tariff up to 50%.

Fallout appears already. The use of the US steel industry has fell to unstable levels – in 2025 in 2021 to 81.2%. In financially, the picture is even harder. In 2022 in 2022 in 2022, in 2022 in 2022, the United States in 2022 in 2022 in the fourth quarter of 2024 (see below). The Census Bureau has now listed the steel sector among the worst industries in the country.

Without moving rapidly, this trajectory threatens the progress with the original Section of the President Trump with the return of the 232 announcements. However, the president is an open message to America with a decisive movement to increase the Trump’s tariffs to 50%: we will not deliver an industrial core to foreign manipulation and overwhelming. We will not allow the imported steel, market prices or fraud, to destroy the vitality of the US mill in SNUCK.

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The stakes are not only economical – they are strategic. Economic security is the field of national security and steel, national defense, critical infrastructure and advanced production. A powerful steel industry means a strong American.

President Trump’s action is bold, timely and completely necessary. American workers put American manufacturers and American security First.

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