March 28, 2025
Questions raised over steel industry's capacity to meet Trump's American-made demand
The pipeline and other industries are raising doubts on whether the U.S. has the capacity to construct pipelines made solely of domestic steel materials, following the Department of Commerce's request for public input on the “use of American-made materials” in any new and expanded U.S. pipelines. Major steel producers have yet to weigh in -- and U.S. Steel and Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), a carbon and alloy steel supplier, both told Inside U.S. Trade they planned to submit comments to...
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