Zhong Tian (Zenith) Steel Group, shown in 2016, has adopted new technology to streamline the production and reduce environmental impact in China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) President Trump’s new proposal to erect a wall — this one a tariff-fueled steel and aluminum curtain — masks an inconvenient truth : The U.S. steel industry has been holding its own thanks to advances in productivity and the spread of cheap natural gas and gas-fired electricity.
Trump has called his tariffs a way to halt the slide in U.S. jobs. Yet the slide in U.S. steelworker jobs has in large part been the result […]
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