I work at a steelworks in Australia. The economic conditions are not identical to America but a lot of the same pain exists. Australia also has worse Anti-dump

I work at a steelworks in Australia. The economic conditions are not identical to America but a lot of the same pain exists. Australia also has worse Anti-dumping protections then the US. China is dumping steel (i.e selling below cost) into our market - see: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-28/china-trade-arrangements-questioned-over-steel-dumping/7884026 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-28/china-trade-arrangemen... The government deciding to build a submarine fleet 'in Australia' was a huge election issue. The local unions around here are campaigning on forcing state government to use 'local' steel as a condition of their tender process for infrastructure projects. I think they have a point somewhat, it is pretty absurd that they built a sports stadium about 2km up the road from our huge steel plant and imported all the Steel for it. I don't think there is an easy answer. Throwing the industry the odd submarine or two to supply material for isn't long term sustainable. However If it is enough to kick-start a ship building industry though who knows...