US Steel, Biden and Nippon
Japanese companies needing to grow have sought out American deals. Experts say that will not change even after Biden’s rejection of Nippon Steel’s takeover attempt.
The city lost half its population after the steel industry collapsed in the 1970s and 1980s, yet has clung to relevance as a mini-hub for medicine, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Now, 70 years after scores of regional steelworkers quite literally fought the Japanese in World War II,
President Biden announced on Friday that he is blocking the sale of U.S. Steel, a Pittsburgh, PA company, from being sold to Japan.
And while Nippon promised to keep the headquarters in Downtown Pittsburgh and not shut down ... including government officials from Japan and allies and partners in the U.S., to take all ...
By blocking a Japanese company’s takeover of U.S. Steel, President Joe Biden said he was protecting good jobs in the American heartland. He may be putting them at risk instead.
President Joe Biden on Friday announced a decision to block the $14 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan-based Nippon Steel, saying domestically produced steel is essential to U.S. national security. "Without domestic steel production and domestic steel workers, our nation is less strong and less secure," Biden said in a statement.
President Joe Biden's decision to block Nippon Steel's acquisition of U.S. Steel will go down as one of the worst of his presidency, and will tarnish the legacy of a man who set out to strengthen American relations with other nations and to be the most pro-worker president in modern American history.
President Joe Biden has rejected the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel.
Japan-based Nippon Steel has offered to give the U.S. government veto power over any potential reduction in steel output by U.S. Steel if the federal government approves a proposed merger.
Mr. Biden says he blocked the $14 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by Japan's Nippon Steel on the grounds the sale was a threat to national security.
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