A new article from the Los Angeles Times highlights how President Trump's steel tariffs have made things worse for the domestic steel industry and its consumers. 

On Monday Oct. 14, President Donald Trump announced an increase in Section 232 tariffs on Turkish steel from 25 to 50 percent.

The steelmaker filed for bankruptcy and is laying off 376 employees. 

Paul Nathanson, executive director for the Coalition of American Metal Manufacturers and Users, explains why the Section 232 steel tariffs were a futile effort to save domestic steel.

FABTECH explores the impact of section 232 steel tariffs on metal manufacturing in America. 

United Structures of America will shutter locations in Houston, Texas, and Portland, Tennessee, due to "crippling" steel tariffs. 

In a memo, a US Steel plant in Michigan says recently announced layoffs are expected to be temporary, not permanent. However, layoffs are likely to continue "periodically."

According to the Wall Street Journal, JSW Steel USA is suing the Trump Commerce Department for being denied exclusions from steel tariffs.

A United Steelworker representative says about 80 to 100 of its members at Pennsylvania's NLMK Farrell steel plant were laid off because of steel tariffs.

Today President Trump signed an executive order mandating greater use of U.S.-made steel and iron in federal infrastructure projects.