Pro-Manufacturing

Steel and other manufacturing industries are the backbone of our economy. Maintaining a strong manufacturing sector creates significant benefits for society, including good-paying jobs, investment in research and development, critical materials for our national defense, and high-value exports.

Yet manufacturing in the U.S. faces significant challenges to its international competitiveness due to a host of factors, including inadequate investment in infrastructure, regulatory overreach and, most importantly, foreign unfair trade practices. These practices have resulted in massive global steel overcapacity causing repeated surges of steel imports into the U.S. market and job losses affecting many local communities. A concerted pro-manufacturing policy agenda is needed to reverse this unsustainable trend.

To meet these critical goals, the steel industry in the United States strongly supports the implementation of the following public policy priorities to allow U.S. manufacturers to recover and thrive.