Commentary: Trump’s Steel Tariffs Must Be Permanent

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President Trump imposed a 25 percent ad valorem tariff on steel. When questioned whether the tariffs were permanent, President Trump’s Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, Peter Navarro, responded that the tariffs are “permanent because the problem is permanent.”

Navarro is right. America’s steel industry has been brutalized for 50 years by unfair trade with the Third World.

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