Steel and Aluminum Makers Restart Plants After Trump’s Tariff Announcement

Steel and Aluminum Makers Restart Plants After Trump’s Tariff Announcement
Laborers fill orders of machine grade steel to be shipped throughout the Pacific Northwest at the Pacific Machinery Tool Steel Company in Portland, Oregon, on March 6, 2018. Natalie Behring/Getty Images
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American steel and aluminum makers are rebooting stalled plants and calling back hundreds of workers with the expectation that President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will soon be enacted.

United States Steel Corp. announced on Wednesday that it would fire up its blast furnace in Illinois and call back 500 workers, Wall Street Journal reported. Last week, Century Aluminum Co. said that it will restart smelting in Kentucky for the first time since 2015.
Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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