Biden vows to shield US steel industry by blocking Japanese merger and seeking new Chinese tariffs | Chris Megerian & Will Weissert

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PITTSBURGH—President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would thwart the acquisition of US Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel, seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class votes in the battleground state...

President Joe Biden speaks at the United Steelworkers Headquarters in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

Administration officials are reviewing the proposed acquisition of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel, and Biden said last month he would oppose the deal, saying it was “vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated.”“American-owned, American-operated by American union steelworkers—the best in the world—and that’s going to happen, I promise you,” he said.

The US imported roughly $6.1 billion in steel products in the 12 months ending in February 2023, but just 3 percent of those imports came from China, according to Census Bureau figures. Citing existing trade barriers, the American Iron and Steel Institute said China last year accounted for even less—just 2.1 percent of US steel imports—making it America’s seventh-biggest source of foreign steel.

He said he delivered a similar message to Chinese President Xi Jinping during previous conversations, telling him, “You’ll use them for all the wrong reasons, so you’re not going to get those advanced computer chips.” US Trade Representative Katherine Tai also announced Wednesday that her office, acting on a petition from five national labor unions, was investigating China for “targeting the maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors for dominance.”It “misinterprets normal trade and investment activities as damaging to US national security and corporate interests,” the ministry said in a statement.

 

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