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Workers Want President Trump to Act on Steel Imports — But Some Aren’t Expecting Much

January 12, 2018

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President Trump has 90 days to safeguard American-made steel.

It’s all on President Trump now.

The Commerce Department on Thursday evening announced it had officially submitted to President Trump its national security investigation into steel imports. Trump now has 90 days to decide whether to act to safeguard our defense industrial base and stand up for steelworkers.

Commerce technically submitted its “Section 232” report a few days before the statutory deadline of Jan. 15. But the Trump administration is more than six months past its own self-imposed promise to steelworkers that it would act before July 1, 2017 — and workers cannot wait for action much longer.

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