Just four days after he took office, Pr*sident Donald Trump fulfilled one of his campaign promises by issuing a memorandum calling for a Commerce Department study on making all-new, retrofitted, repaired, or expanded U.S. pipelines to be built with American steel. The problem for Trump is that it’s likely no way can be found to craft a domestic-steel-only policy that’s legal. And even if that obstacle could be overcome, a majority of Congress opposes the idea.
The White House soon exempted the Keystone XL pipeline because it is underway, with much of the pipe already stacked ready for installation. According to KXL builder TransCanada, about half the pipeline’s steel will come from abroad, half from a plant in Arkansas....
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