Swamp Notes: Trump’s big play to save steel production
FT News Briefing7 Kesä 2025

Swamp Notes: Trump’s big play to save steel production

US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on steel to 50 per cent this week. He’s also allowing Japan’s Nippon to buy the US Steel Corporation. The moves are meant to bring back manufacturing to America’s steel industry. But will they? FT senior trade writer Alan Beattie and Zehra Munir, the FT’s industrial reporter, discuss whether Trump can make good on a popular promise.


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It’s always steel — tariffs provide Trump with a familiar trade weapon

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