Administration plans import curbs, other aid
Under a relentless assault from cut-rate foreign competitors, the nation's steel industry has suffered through a nightmarish year. Steel imports have increased about 50% just since 1975 and in some months this year have captured 20% of the U.S. market. Combined with lackluster domestic demand, that foreign invasion has caused shutdowns of old mills, forcing more than 60,000 workers out of jobs in the past year. Steel executives, union men and a new caucus of Congressmen from steel-producing areas have brought heavy pressure on the Carter Administration to do something. The President's first response was...