Trump’s tariffs distort ‘exciting time’ for the Ohio Steel plant as an executive director of the eyes adding jobs, enhancing productivity

First on the fox: President Donald Trump Tariffs will be a grace for a steel mill based in Ohi and its employees, the JSW Steel USA CEO, a branch of the mass producer of steel headquarters in India, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.
“It’s a good part of a formula that results in the increase in our company’s use over the next 12 months, from 68% to probably 84%, and beyond that in years to come. So, for us is a very exciting time,” JSW Steel USA CEO Robert Simon He told Fox News Digital from Trump’s tariff plan in a telephone conversation on Thursday night.
Simon has been the CEO of JSW Steel USA since March last year, bringing with him for over 30 years Experience in the steel industry. He spoke with Fox News Digital after Trump, who announced a “honest and reciprocal trade plan”, which he celebrated during a press conference as a project that will overwhelm workplaces while trading partners move their industry to US soil to avoid tariffs.
JSW USA is a branch of the JUMBAJ JSW Group, which owns the second largest Indian private steel company, JSW Steel. JSW USA has two steel locations in the US, one in Mingo Junction, Ohio, and the other operation at Baytown, Texas.
Executive director JSW Steel USA Robert Simon spoke with Fox Digital in an exclusive interview. (JSW Steel USA)
Simon told Fox News Digital that he was in the industry over his 30 years, USA steel producers they met Strict Environmental and Security Practice and have paid their employees fairly, while foreign steel manufacturers could suppress US regulations while exporting their goods to the United States
“We, as steel manufacturers, paid our employees honest salaries, treated them fairly, fulfilled some of the brightest-not-not-of-the-artistic requirements in the world and these practices in our markets, with a simple demand equation to demand market prices.”
JSW Steel USA facility in Mingo Junction, Ohio. (JSW Steel USA)
“Frustration is, as it is fair that others who do not treat their employees in the same way do not follow the same rules, do not follow environmental practices … get government subsidies. How fair they can come to our markets and take a market share when that not the same playing place? “He said.
Simon said that only a plant in Ohi is likely to see a minimum increase of 100 jobs in the next year under Trump’s tariff plan.
“As you look at this increase in use together with the overall increase in production, which we foresee in the next three to five years, we evaluate, at least, increasing 100 jobs in the next 12 plus months associated with the increase in that rate of use,” he said.
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Trump’s administration was issued by the fact Last week, renewing 25% of steel tariffs, which described in detail the “domestic steel and aluminum industry and achieved sustainable use of at least 80%”. JSW Steel USA told Fox News Digital that they were already on the way to increase the use of 68% to 84% – higher than Trump’s target number of 80%.
According to the first Trump administration, JSW Steel USA particularly sued the Federal Government in 2019 due to tariffs regarding the imported materials for steel layers. The company now produces all domestic materials for steel layers as part of the certificate of JSW groups for its facilities to produce and deliver the product in the communities in which they serve.
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Cicat Resort & Casino on January 25, 2025 in Las Vegas. (Ian Maule/Getty Images)
In his comments, Simon celebrated Fox Digital that the Ohio families who worked for a long time in the steel industry return to the factory because the industry reinstates in the first and second Trump administration. The JSW USA bought the Ohio 2018 factory after acting as a steel factory wheeling-pittsburgh, but sat dormant for years.
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“This is a company that has been closed for more than seven years, when we have gained it. We rented a workforce, trained the workforce, all from the local area. What is really cool to see is that we have employees whose grandparents and grandparents are brilliant – Grand -Iparents worked at the same companyWhich is closed in the end, and they are now part of the revival of that company and the adoption of products that are extremely competitive and extremely impressive in terms of their value added products, “Simon said.
Trump announced a reciprocal tariff plan on Thursday, touching Hward Lutnicka, his candidate for a trade secretary, to develop a report on reciprocal trade relations within 180 days. The portrayal said on Thursday that he would prepare a report for Trump by April 1.
Howard Lutnick, a candidate for a trade secretary, joined President Donald Trump at the White House oval office on Monday, February 10, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“I have decided on the trade for the purpose of honesty, that I will collect the reciprocal tariff – which means that all countries are charged by the United States, we will not charge them anymore or less. In other words, they charge us a tax or tariff and charge them exactly the same tax or tariff. White house Thursday.
Trump called that the plan would lead to the benefits of work in the US while foreign trade partners move the Operational States to avoid reciprocal tariffs.
“I can build a factory, a plant or whatever that could be here,” Trump said on Thursday afternoon from an oval office. “And that includes medical, which includes cars, which includes chips and semiconduct. It includes everything. If you build here, you don’t have any tariffs. And I think it will happen. I think our country will be flooded with jobs. “
Simon told Fox News Digital that Trump’s business and agreed abilities are “obvious to everyone” as he goes through dozens of executive actions and orders in just a few weeks back in the oval office, noting that it is “pretty amazing”.
“It became obvious to everyone that Mr. Trump was not a politician, right, but more a business person who enters and leads our country, from a much more business perspective than as a career politician. Those who have different opinions, this results in very fast negotiations. is in the office.
The JSW USA bought the Ohio Factory in 2018, after sitting dormant for years. (JSW Steel USA)
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Trump also met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi On Thursday, and the two discussed trade, an economic relationship between India and the United States and military sales. The couple also “pledged to launch the possibilities of US and Indian companies to invest in high-value high value industry in countries”, including the appointment of JSW operations in Texas and Ohio as a major investment in the United States, states in a common compound A statement of two nations.
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during a press conference at the White House on Thursday, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“The steel tariffs that President Trump brought a necessary step in leveling the playgrounds for American steel workers and manufacturers. Foreign competitors do not manage to protect their workforce at the same safety standards, they do not compensate them for honestly and produce steel that contributes to the environment degradation, all the time, trying to seek flood the US market, to use our strong economy, to run the collapse of our markets in the process, “Simon added in the comment provided by Fox Digital.