Steel, Aluminum Tariffs Will Double to 50 Percent, Trump Announces

‘Nobody’s going to get around that,’ the president says at a U.S. Steel mill in Western Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. Steel Corporation – Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pa., on May 30, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa.–President Donald Trump announced May 30 that tariffs are doubling to 50 percent for steel and aluminum imported into the United States.

“We are going to be imposing a 25 percent increase. We’re going to bring it from 25 percent to 50 percent—the tariffs on steel into the United States of America,” he said during a rally held at the U.S. Steel Corporation’s Irvin Works plant in the Mon Valley in western Pennsylvania to celebrate the newly announced partnership with Japan’s Nippon Steel.