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outside of Pittsburgh.“If you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country,” he told a crowd filled with cheering steelworkers. “You can’t make a military. What are we going to do? Say, ‘Let’s go to China to get our steel for the army tanks and for the boats and ships.’ A strong steel industry is not just a matter of dignity or prosperity and pride. It’s above all, a matter of national security.”
Spot steel prices have increased 20% or more, depending on the product, since the original 25% tariffs went into effect in March, said Philip Gibbs, steel analyst for KeyBank. He said that aluminum prices have also increased, but not by as much. Overall steel prices increased 6% just between March and April, according to the government’s Producer Price Index, while aluminum prices increased 2%.“They’re not bashful about asking for price increases,” Gibbs said. “If they feel like if they have a window to ask, they will.”The two industries have been benefiting from the previous 25% tariffs. But they’ve had other protections.
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While the US is not the manufacturing-focused economy it once was, it still consumes tens of millions of tons of steel and aluminum a year. Studies of those 2018 tariffs found that for every steel job that was saved, there were 75 jobs lost elsewhere in manufacturing due to higher input costs. (The American Iron and Steel Institute challenges those studies.)
Automakers mostly source their steel used at North American plants from domestic mills, and they have long-term purchase contracts that have, so far, protected them from price increases in the spot market. But the previous round of tariffs in 2018 and the price increases that followed eventually cost the companies billions of dollars, the automakers reported at that time.Left-hander Cristopher Sánchez (5-1) allowed one run in six innings to win for the first time since May 7.
Addison Barger hit a two-run home run off Maz Lazar, and Davis Schneider hit a solo shot off Sánchez, but Toronto had its five-game winning streak halted.Barger has homered in four straight games, raising his season total to six.
Blue Jays right-hander Bowden Francis (2-7) matched a career-worst by allowing seven runs, six earned, in 1 2/3 innings.Bryson Stott drew a leadoff walk and Turner followed with a two-run homer. Harper piled on with a 394-foot drive, his ninth. It was the third time the Phillies have hit back-to-back homers.