What can we do? American companies are finding it cheaper to use offshore steel. We were particularly hard hit here. Whole sectors of the Minnesota economy in what we call the iron range here have vanished in the last three years. The tariffs imposed on steel a few years ago have done nothing than to move US operations to places like China and Taiwan. Because no restrictions were put on manufactured steel imports we are now seeing even more of an influx of steel products from other nations.

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