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All because “the uncertainty that President Trump generates kills any possible consideration of US suppliers” as part of these Canadian and international projects.

Trump started the current tariff threats, that re-consideration of the US Steel supplier went out the window, again. And this time permanently. The steel that would have normally been purchased over the next 10 years from the US Steel maker has resurrected and sustained a Canadian supplier.

used US supply chains as a normal course of business. More recently, the infrastructure clients were starting to get comfortable with once again buying the steel from the US supplier; the clients wanted to have more than the one steel supplier for risk management purposes. However, as soon as Pres.

for millions of tonnes was cancelled. The US steel maker had to lay off 10 American workers as a result. That may be a relatively “small” number of unemployed US workers – but not to those 10 families. And multiply this scenario by thousands of similar situations where Canadian manufacturers

They asked for the steel to be sourced in Canada. Several Canadian steel makers were approached and one of them agreed to re-start production; this Canadian steel maker had been dormant and was looking for a large “anchor” order to re-start production. The order with the US supplier

When President Trump won his first term he immediately started making noise about tariffs and ripping up the NAFTA agreement. The infrastructure clients got spooked and said the uncertainty created by President Trump’s threats created too much project risk.

The company does not export any of these infrastructure products to the US. But for 30+ years this company bought the steel for these projects from a US Steel maker because the US supplier was\is an excellent company and the steel itself was so specialized: it wasn’t produced anywhere in Canada.

To summarize:

-They stopped almost all USAID work

-Then they conceded that some programs actually saved lives & granted waivers for those

-Then they promised a “careful” 90 day review of everything

-Then they cancelled 90% anyway within just weeks, including many they had just deemed life-saving