Steel Imports Are Not A National Security Issue

By Donald Cameron (August 25, 2017, 10:30 AM EDT) -- Most U.S. steel producers think import restraints are a good idea, and they believe that if it requires finding steel imports to be a national security issue, then so be it. Others, including Congressman Kevin Brady, the Republican Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, have raised serious questions about the wisdom of this "ends justifies the means" approach. In the June 22 hearing with Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, he suggested that Congress has passed a number of laws governing unfair trade — which the U.S. steel industry has used to its benefit — and other laws such as Section 201 which was used in 2001 by President George W. Bush for this same steel industry....

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