{"id":30026,"date":"2025-05-30T22:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-to-increase-steel-import-tariffs-to-50\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T22:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:50:41","slug":"us-to-increase-steel-import-tariffs-to-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-to-increase-steel-import-tariffs-to-50\/","title":{"rendered":"US to increase steel import tariffs to 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">President Donald Trump has announced the US will double its current tariff rate on steel imports from 25% to 50%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Trump said the move would help boost the local steel industry and the national output, while decreasing reliance on China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Trump also said that $14bn would be invested into the area&#8217;s steel production through a partnership between US Steel and Japan&#8217;s Nippon Steel. Details on the partnership are still unclear, though Trump has been touting the deal he&#8217;d made. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The announcement is the latest turn in Trump&#8217;s rollercoaster approach to tariffs since re-entering office in January. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy0k5x21y35o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has announced the US will double its current tariff rate on steel imports from 25% to 50%. Speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Trump said the move would help boost the local steel industry and the national output, while decreasing reliance on China. Trump also said that $14bn would be invested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[9817,3662,3531,1694],"class_list":["post-30026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-import","tag-increase","tag-steel","tag-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30028,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026\/revisions\/30028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}