Former CEO of Nucor Corporation and senior trade adviser to President Trump’s Campaign, Dan DiMicco, defended the Trump administration’s aggressive foreign trade policy and tariffs in his keynote address, “The Economic Plan for Growth and Global Competitiveness in the United States―Implications for Steel” last week at METALCON in Charlotte, N.C. He explained how steel and aluminum tariffs are necessary, make sense and are putting the United States back on track.
DiMicco, Charlotte’s best-known advocate of hardline trade policies and chairman of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, said he is not only at the forefront of fighting for steel but also for manufacturing.
DiMicco says, “Trump is a unique guy. He is not a politician, and it shows. There are things people like about him, and things people don’t like about him. What I am here to talk about today is what he is doing to improve our global competitiveness. That is why I joined his team on trade as a strategic economic adviser.”
“Trump's economic policy has the economy firing on all cylinders―wages are starting to go up, and unemployment rates are down,” said DiMicco. “Our four-point economic plan the President outlined during his campaign is very straight forward. It involves tax reform, trade reform, regulatory reform and energy reform. It also involves rebuilding our infrastructure. Each reform is significant by itself. The beauty of the four-point strategy is the synergies that take place when you execute on all four together―all designed to improve our global competitiveness. As the President has said, the United States is open for business again. Build your plants here. Grow your facilities in the United States to serve our market and to export to the rest of the world―not the other way around.”