Saskatchewan premier says new US tariffs hurting steel projects in province
REGINA — Saskatchewan’s premier says the recently imposed U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum have caused some projects in the States to grind to a halt.
On Thursday, Scott Moe said several energy pipeline projects in Texas and Oklahoma are at a standstill because they’re waiting on pipe.
“All of a sudden we have a 25 per cent cost on that product that’s heading down and those projects can’t move ahead until they get their pipe from Western Canada,” he said in an interview from Washington, D.C.
Moe was in the U.S. capital meeting with officials, including Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.