[ April 24, 2024 ]
U.S. Steel, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports, has announced a $750 million revitalization of its Gary plant.
Trump’s tariffs have been scoffed and denounced by elites in the media as antithetical to America’s interests, and a surefire path to trade wars.
But here’s one effect that’s hardly doom and gloom: An American business is investing American dollars in a venture that will ultimately help drive the American economy.
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Hard to argue with that.
From the Chicago Tribune:
U.S. Steel announced Thursday that it is investing $750 million to revitalize its flagship Gary plant to gear up for increased demand in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported steel.
The company said the investment will make “significant upgrades” to increase efficiencies at the 110-year-old Northwest Indiana plant, which is U.S. Steel’s largest, employing 3,800 workers.
Nhe investment in the Gary plant is part of a $2 billion asset revitalization program at Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. The five-year Gary project will include building expansion and the installation of new production equipment and technology.
No new hires were announced as part of the plant improvements.
“There are no committed new jobs at this point, but the project will retain the more than 3,800 jobs in Gary,” Abby Gras, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Economic Development Corp., said Thursday.
U.S. Steel Corp. President and CEO David Burritt credited favorable trade policies on steel imports as instrumental to the company’s facility modernization program.
“We are pleased to be making this significant investment at Gary Works, which will improve the facility’s environmental performance, bolster our competitiveness and benefit the local community for years to come,” Burritt said in a news release.
“We are experiencing a renaissance at U.S. Steel,” he added.
Earlier this year, U.S. Steel announced it was restarting two blast furnaces and hiring 800 workers at a previously idled steel plant in downstate Granite City, near St. Louis. Trump visited the Illinois plant last month to celebrate its reopening as “a great victory” and a sign that his protectionist trade policies were working.
Trump imposed tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum in March, launching an escalating trade war with China and other countries. The domestic steel industry has emerged as an early winner, but others may be hurt by retaliatory tariffs.
For example, Milwaukee-based manufacturer Harley-Davidson announced in June it would move some production overseas to avoid tariffs on American-made motorcycles imposed by the European Union in response to Trump’s measures.
China dominates the global steel market, but Trump’s tariffs on imported steel are seen as a catalyst for domestic manufacturers such as U.S. Steel.
U.S. and Chinese officials said Thursday they would hold talks later this month in a bid to ease the escalating trade war.
Located on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, Gary Works is U.S. Steel’s largest manufacturing plant, with an annual raw steelmaking capability of 7.5 million net tons. The facility makes sheet products, strip mill plate in coils and tin products.
“Today’s news is a major step forward that will have a lasting positive impact on the city of Gary, the northwest region and the state of Indiana for years to come,” Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said in the release.
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9 Comments
5 years ago
Trump Effect: U.S. Steel To Invest $750 Million To Revitalize Flagship Gary Plant
Pamela’s trumpeting of favored industries’ response to a tariff-induced revised investment climate is unwarranted. What she doesn’t tell you about is the thousands of businesses that are struggling- and laying off workers- because of the Trump tariffs. The picture she presents is very one-sided and creates a false impression. Trump’s tariffs are an overall negative for the American economy.
That said, I also believe, with respect to China, some action was needed. Successive American administrations have given China almost unfettered access to American markets, and China has profited handsomely from that. On the other hand, I think the USA has not gotten much in exchange for what we have given the Chinese. Ok, less costly consumer goods, but our interests are far more encompassingr than that.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Agree on china. its the last country America should be buying anything. They are huge security threat .And they’ve built their armed forces with American money and now dare threaten America !
on other hand treating allies same way will backfire. A quota with other countries on imports would’ve been better .
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
I have no little ones to spend time at home with and no time for your scam either.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
The article is about Gary Works, not of the whole economy, so is not one sided.
The overall jobs picture is positive, 100s of thousands of jobs are being created and the corrosive effect of cheap illegal labour is being reduced.
There may be people going out of business but I haven’t seen figures and maybe you could provide those.
5 years ago
5 years ago
President Trump deserves credit for making America great again !
5 years ago
Meanwhile in the UK Teresa May invests in South Africa amidst the lethal attacks on white farmers and the expropriation of their lands.
Mind boggles.
5 years ago
The sequence seems to be 1) decimate economy manufacturing 2) populations become desperate they demand socialism / communism.
Solution: 1) revitalize economy and manufacturing 2) opportunity of freedom and safety to individuals 3) rejection of socialism/communism.
5 years ago
More great news about America’s industries coming back!
