The steel industry needs to modernize. Tariffs can help, but the government must go beyond trade policy<\/p>\n
Last week, Donald Trump revived a trade war from his first term, implementing a 25% tariff on all imported steel. In doing so, he\u2019s using tariffs as a blunt-force tool under the assumption that they\u2019ll be sufficient to jump-start the American steel industry.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n
Mike Williams is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former deputy director of the BlueGreen Alliance<\/p>\n
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