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March 15, 2018

Tariffs lift hopes for jobs in U.S. mill towns

  • A few companies say they are planning to fire up long-idled mills and smelters, but the tariffs are likely to have limited effect.
    • By DAVID KOENIG
    AP Business Writer

    In the heart of America's diminished steel country, support for President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports is broad and bipartisan. It is tempered, though, by a strong streak of realism.

    Trump's tariffs are expected to raise U.S. prices for steel and aluminum. That would help domestic producers and create several hundred new steelworker jobs.


     
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