WASHINGTON – AP
In the heart of America’s diminished steel country, support for President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports is broad and bipartisan. It is tempered, though, by a strong streak of realism.
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A worker stands outside the U.S. Steel Corp. coke plant, part of the company's complex in Granite City, Illinois, in 2015. With President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, some companies are planning to fire up long-idled mills and smelters. United States Steel Corp. says it will restart a blast furnace in Illinois. | ZIA NAZAMI / BELLEVILLE NEWS-DEMOCRAT / VIA AP
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