https://www.barrons.com/articles/biden-trump-steel-tariffs-c44f4279

Paywalled.

Did you subscribe to Barons or are you just throwing up something you googled without reading it?

a cooling economy, which tariffs are partly to blame for

The post COVID economy has been red hot, especially in the States. Pre-COVID we just came off an explosive construction boom. Our current demand for minerals exceeds supply.

You could arguably put inflation on steel tariffs, but that would require you to ignore a deliberate loose domestic lending policy, particularly at the corporate level.

However you slice it...

Us steel has made a smaller portion of worldwide supply, while costing more for usa purchasers

Is a consequence of poor domestic administration combined with poor foreign ecological controls.

The decision to cash out of US Steel to a Japanese bidder was part of an ongoing liquidation of the industry dating back to the 1990s. That's well before the US began imposing steel tariffs.

The tariffs are a response to federal officials recognizing steel as a strategic domestic asset that has been mismanaged. They are not the cause of the mismanagement.