Steel is a strategic material and we must maintain the ability to produce at least minimum strategic amounts of it. The production of it also requires several types of raw material that will employ miners again. One more thing is being able to control the quality.

We won WWII because we had everything we needed and could get what we did not have and the skilled labor to make what we needed but with us being dependent on other countries for our daily needs it just puts us in a bad position.

Just remember how it was sold as a good idea for the Country and the only ones that benefited by sending our jobs overseas was the idiots telling us it was a good idea.

Main reason is we need quality steel. Yes China will always be cheaper priced, but the quality is just as cheap or nonexistent . Back in 2000 when manufacturing took a giant dump, shops laid off or completely went out of business because China promised way cheaper prices products. It took 19yrs, but that work is coming back because China cannot produce the quality needed.