Nippon Steel shares rise
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The Trump administration will soon ensure that its 50% steel tariffs, which have threatened to make everything containing steel more expensive, will apply to your next fridge or dishwasher.
China churned out a lot less steel in May compared to the previous year as mills responded to the government’s pledge to cut production.
President Trump on Friday cleared the way for Japan-based Nippon Steel to potentially acquire U.S. Steel, though details about the structure of the deal — including a possible "golden share" held by the federal government — remain unclear.
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order paving the way for a Nippon Steel investment in U.S. Steel, so long as the Japanese company complies with a “national security agreement” submitted
UK ministers ordered British Steel to give them 24-hour access to the country’s last blast furnace facility when they seized control of it, a sign of the high concern that its Chinese owner Jingye would break a requirement to keep the site operational.
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The first concern will be financing, necessary to fund both the all-cash acquisition and the promised investments, which range from upgrades to existing plants to a new steel mill
President Trump signs executive order allowing U.S. Steel partnership with Japan's Nippon Steel, with an $11 billion investment commitment.
By Alexandra Alper (Reuters) -Shares of U.S. Steel dipped after a Nippon Steel executive told the Japanese Nikkei newspaper that its planned takeover of the company required "a degree of management freedom" to go ahead,