The Commerce Department Makes A Feeble National Security Plea For Steel Protection
The U.S. Department of Commerce just released its report calling for considerable new barriers to imports of steel and aluminum. The major headline is that the Commerce Department offers a menu of options for substantial new levels of protection, allowing President Trump to pick his poison. The indiscriminate nature of these recommendations is, in itself, revealing. Is the United States’s national security threatened by steel imports from Canada and Brazil?

