{"id":622613,"date":"2026-08-05T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:00:06","slug":"us-steel-production-rises-as-trump-tariffs-erode-reliance-on-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622613\/","title":{"rendered":"US steel production rises as Trump tariffs erode reliance on imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pacific Steel Group is building California\u2019s first new steel mill in 50 years to satisfy a backlog of orders in a hungry construction industry that has relied on imports and out-of-state shipments.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 400-employee mill in the desert town of Mojave about 547km (340 miles) southeast of San Francisco is just one beam in a nationwide trend.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US steel production has risen about 7 per cent year to date compared with the same period of 2025, according to a BNP Paribas calculation in late July.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Crude steel production already grew 3.1 per cent last year versus 2024 \u2013 to 82 million tonnes \u2013 according to the World Steel Association. The US ranked as the world\u2019s No 3 producer after China and India last year, climbing from fourth in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts cited US President <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/sc.mp\/jcusg?utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_campaign=3312555&amp;utm_medium=share_widget\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">Donald Trump\u2019s import tariffs<\/a> as one reason. \u201cUS tariffs have net-helped domestic steel production,\u201d said Vivian Yang, an analyst with market research firm Mysteel.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-qa=\"Component-StyledBlockquote\" class=\"css-1fi7v0o e1t6i3s41\"><p>We\u2019re in the construction business, so we already have a strong backlog of orders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Olson, Pacific Steel Group<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Imports were hardly expected to compete with the Pacific Steel Group project, as the low-emission 380,000 tonne-per-year plant due to open next year already had a list of waiting rebar customers in the US construction sector, mill operations vice-president Mark Olson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacific Steel Group is building California\u2019s first new steel mill in 50 years to satisfy a backlog of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[263025,42362,377,79,1374,995,381,356,179,18,19,387,17,10233,388,263024,263026,1605,2428,25000],"class_list":["post-622613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-american-iron-and-steel-institute","tag-bnp-paribas","tag-brazil","tag-business","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-india","tag-ireland","tag-joe-biden","tag-mexico","tag-mojave","tag-pacific-steel-group","tag-san-francisco","tag-south-korea","tag-us-commerce-department"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117045390744196742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}