The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Friday, May 30, wishing to double the surcharge of imported steel to change 50%, to defend national production.
“We are going to spend customs duties in steel from 25% to 50%, which will protect the steel industry in the United States,” said the head of state from a US steel metallurgy giant. UU. In Pennsylvania. An official White House account in X said the measure would intervene “next week.”
“No one can avoid” these customs tasks, they assured Donald Trump to the gallery, before workers with safety helmets and work jackets with reflexive bands. After their announcement of the new customs tasks, the participants sang “United States, USA!” In the room.
Donald Trump praises the approach between American steel and nippon steel
The US president also delighted the approach he approved last week between Us Steel and his Japanese Japanese competitor Steel, and in which little information has still leaked. “The most important thing is that Us Steel will continue to be controlled by the United States, otherwise, this agreement would not have concluded,” said Donald Trump, ensuring that Nippon Steel inject $ 14 billion “in the future” of Us Steel.
The operation, which Donald Trump himself opposed for a long time, was found in the heart of the US presidential campaign of 2024, because first refers to Pennsylvania, a strategic state at the electoral level, which is also the cradle of steel in the United States.
At the end of 2023, the two industrial groups announced an acquisition project of $ 14.9 billion (including debt) by Us Steel by Nippon Steel. Former President Joe Biden had finally blocked the operation a few weeks before leaving the White House in January, arguing security problems. Donald Trump had decided to reexamine the project. “In Nippon Steel, they kept asking me (to validate the operation), I continued to reject myself and ended up saying that these people really wanted to do something big,” he described.
Source: BFM TV
