MAGA: Buy American Rule Doesn't Apply to Keystone XL Pipeline Steel

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During the joint address to Congress President Trump said:

We have cleared the way for the construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, thereby creating tens of thousands of jobs. And I have issued a new directive that new American pipelines be made with American steel.

But today...

‘Buy American’ Rule for Keystone Pipeline Dropped After Ex-Foreign Steel Exec Became Commerce Secretary


The Trump administration’s decision to exempt the Keystone XL pipeline from “Buy American” rules could benefit one company in particular: the steel giant that newly minted Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross invested in and helped run for a decade.

Two days after Ross was confirmed, the White House announced that Commerce will not apply those rules to the project. “The Keystone XL Pipeline is currently in the process of being constructed, so it does not count as a new, retrofitted, repaired or expanded pipeline,” a White House spokesperson told Politico.

The pipeline’s exemption from Buy American rules could benefit Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel manufacturer. Ross, a billionaire investor and leveraged buyout specialist, sat on the company’s board until Wednesday, and in January disclosed equity holdings of between $750,000 and $1.5 million.

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Poorly written article posted by the OP - they make it sound like Trump changed his mind due to cronyism, but that's not it at all:

Avoiding a “Buy American” provision championed by Mr. Trump removes a major impediment to TransCanada proceeding with the $8-billion (U.S.) project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015 amid widespread opposition by environmentalists. TransCanada had already bought most of the pipe.

With an executive order in January, Mr. Trump set the wheels in motion for the Calgary-based company to resurrect the project. On the same day, he instructed his Commerce Department to devise a plan to ensure pipeline companies use U.S. steel in new, expanded or retrofitted pipelines “to the maximum extent possible.”

“It’s specific to new pipelines or those that are being repaired,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Air Force One on Friday. “Since this one is already currently under construction, the steel is already literally sitting there, it’s hard to go back. Everything moving forward would fall under that executive order.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...from-buy-american-provisions/article34200793/

So, TransCanada is already deep into the construction of this thing, and the parts are already there, about half of them made from US Steel. Do you think Trump should ask this company to throw the procured steel away and rip out the existing work already done?

 

[InTheLight]

Poorly written article posted by the OP - they make it sound like Trump changed his mind due to cronyism, but that's not it at all:


So, TransCanada is already deep into the construction of this thing, and the parts are already there, about half of them made from US Steel. Do you think Trump should ask this company to throw the procured steel away and rip out the existing work already done?

No, they did the money saving thing.

Now please explain why Trump told the American people on Tuesday night that the pipeline would be made from American steel when he obviously knew that it wouldn't be?



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I think he said that thinking it would be a great line for the speech. Trump is turning into a politician right before your eyes:

And I have issued a new directive that new American pipelines be made with American steel.

Not a new project, not a new pipeline and the pipe was already purchased before Obama stalled the project. Never been that sold on Keystone, but it would have probably never been continued at all if Hillary was POTUS.