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A factory worker moves steel rods at the Multi Slide Industries manufacturing plant in Adelaide, Australia, on Aug. 12, 2013. Morne de Klerk/Getty Images
Labor is looking at introducing quotas for local steel in major projects to shelter the Australian steel industry after U.S. President Donald Trump announced future tariffs.
“We’re looking at the procurement part of this,” Treasurer Jim Chalmers told ABC’s Insiders.
