This seems to be pretty good news for Iowa and the U.S. it’s an India based company so at least they’re investing money here.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases...largest-ever-steel-plant-coming-to-iowa/

Sounds like more importantly, the ore will come from the Mesabi range in Minnesota. Maybe Minneapolis can supply some cheap labor....

That is some big news. I'm wondering what the 1700 jobs will pay and if they will be able to fill them all.

The Price of coal just went up!!! About time. Thank Trump.

Im all for it but largest ever is hard to believe. Gary, Pittsburg, Cleveland. I aint buying that one.

I thought it looked good for Iowa before I read it was India owned. Why can foreign companies invest so much in the US and we can't?

This is a must for national security

Us Investors want Big returns...fast

From my understanding it’s being built close to the Wever fertilizer plant.

…it will be staffed with more foreigners lol

^^^ There are plenty already here.

It might be a foreign owned company but its being done here in us so that's a plus especially for iowa.should be some good paying jobs hopefully but time will tell.

I agree, it’s good news, but it is far from the largest steel plant ever built in America. I know quite a few guys that retired from Bethlehem steel. Their Allentown plant was massive, employing almost 30,000 people in it’s hey day.

Their Sparrow Point, Maryland plant was even bigger and is considered to be the largest steel plant ever in operation in America.

They closed the plant in Syracuse last year. Some company in China owns it. I'm all for Americab manufacturing but they prop up these foreign companies so they can pollute the place then leave town when its time to pay for the clean up.

Finding help will be a problem, the Prestage hog plant can’t find enough help, but I’m hoping things will be different there.

Here’s Mesabi Metallic’s website of what’s happening, they say it’s the largest money investment in steel so that makes more sense.

https://www.mesabimetallics.com/steelproject/

Randall I’m not sure where the power is coming from, so I’m not sure if it’ll help the coal industry directly or not, it will help river traffic and railroad.

Largest blast furnace in the country is at Indiana Harbor. Double the size of ours in Middletown but not as efficient.

That was Crucible Steel.They were in the same Steelworkers Local as me.They made specialty metals such as the steel for knife blades for Camillus Cutlery.They used to make some quality knives,,but they too are closed down.

Yeah, but they are already busy running motels and gas stations.

I’m all for job creation wherever.

I’m not 100 % sure this isn’t just tossing a life preserver out in Iowa before November considering that the company is from India and they have checkered past of failed projects and bankruptcy. Is India America first? I’m only asking as a member of the site continuously discusses colored minorities in Canada as a real cancer. Lol

Sending your money to a country,,and sending your people to a country,are two different things.

What's the over that under this reaches operation by proposed timeline? Of course you're all for India now. lol

^^^^^^^ Im for opening a Steel plant here in the States.Im also for India sending their money here,,and their people to canada.

"Matt Christensen, an investigative journalist for KWQC in Davenport, IA, did some digging. He titled his findings “Done deal? Despite White House claims, major hurdles remain for Iowa’s $15B steel plant”. He set the table by writing: But the arrangement still needs to overcome major hurdles — including land acquisition, permits, and financial incentives — before construction can start.

To flesh out his contention that the “done deal” is anything but, Christensen points out that a review of Lee County land records found no major property purchases tied to the project this year. County officials say they don’t have details from the company about its plans. And no permit applications have come before supervisors.

In addition, the Iowa legislature is meeting this Friday to discuss the financial incentives the state might offer to attract the project. Companies typically don’t start building $15 billion plants without clear financial projections that include an estimate of their tax costs, etc. Or an understanding of what related infrastructure – access roads, power delivery, et al. – the state might build."

Must be hard to make a deal when your word/contracts/treatys have no credibility.

And yet the entire bunch of Iowa officials were at the news conference claiming how great it was...

Company website linked in a post above says it will happen. Maybe they are lying too?

"Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday called lawmakers back for the special session, saying “reasonable and limited updates” to the state's economic development program were needed to advance the project proposed by Mesabi Metallics, a Minnesota company owned by the India-based conglomerate Essar Group.

The terms of an agreement between the state and Mesabi Metallics have been outlined in a memorandum of understanding; neither provided a copy when asked for one.

Reynolds has proposed up to $1.36 billion in incentives over a 10-year period through Iowa's Major Economic Growth Attraction program. The special session will allow lawmakers to adjust the program to better align with the needs of the proposed project.

"Certain things had to happen, and apparently the MEGA program doesn't quite fit some of those details. And so that's what the purpose of the legislative session is, is to sort of tweak the legislation a little bit to make sure that this particular program is going to fit," said University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle.

While the specific location remains undisclosed, elected officials have indicated the project is set for Lee County. Still, the chair of the county board of supervisors said this week that the company has not yet committed to the project site."

KCCI Des Moines

You would know.Your Globalist leader Carney,,is the one that backed out on a trade deal with the United States thinking that becoming a member of the E.U. would be a better deal.Untill they didnt want yous.Hahaaa.You know,,the E.U. that you think Brittan still belongs to.Yea,,that one.

Nobody gonna make a deal with a liar.

Thats what Im trying to tell you.Carney is a liar.At least hes not a cross dresser like your last leader,,,er not that I know of anyway. We are opening new Steel plants,,yours are closing down.

In all fairness and jabs aside, there is actually a trade deal in place. Carney hasn’t backed out of it and wasn’t the leader in Canada when the trade agreement was signed. There is somebody in power who signed the trade agreement though, he even touted it as the best ever of course because he signed. It is that person who “backed out” on a deal actually. Feel free to look into that. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Did Trump back out because Canada would not stop China from dumping steel in Canada and wouldn't label it as Chinese product to escape tariffs. Sounds typical for countries with no ethics.

So now it was the US that backed out,not Canada?-good to know,lol.
Cant believe a fekken word out of there anymore.

"Canada currently imposes a 25% surtax on most Chinese steel and aluminum imports, established in October 2024 to counter market distortions and overcapacity."

"Effective March 12, 2025, the United States imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports from Canada under President Donald Trump’s executive orders"

."U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel currently stand at 50% for most products, effective June 4, 2025, when the rate was increased from 25%"


"As of 2026, the effective U.S. tariff rate on Chinese steel is approximately 75%, resulting from a 50% Section 232 national security duty stacked with a 25% Section 301 tariff. "

Canada has no ethics so why would any one deal with them, if they lie about the steel and they lie about timber cutting, well I'm starting to see a pattern here. Also let's not forget the 20 years? of lack of defense spending. Which of course every Canadian leader lied since natos founding.

President Trump did not create Canada’s predicament

He did not produce weak productivity, depleted private investment or our failure to build

But Washington has made an overdue assessment: the US cannot indefinitely absorb the world’s excess output and debt while its own living standards stagnate and industrial base hollows out

The Trump administration is confronting distortions that earlier governments deferred

What’s your point dirt?

Tariffs nor trumpster created Canada’s problems,,,,,

T.D.S.,,,you got it BAD.

Inconsistancy.

In what?