{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://balderson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1894", "Balderson Applauds USTR Announcement of Successful Steel Negotiations with Mexico", "2020-11-06", "2020", "2020-11", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Troy Balderson", "B001306", "balderson.house.gov", "balderson", "https://balderson.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=14", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Congressman Troy Balderson (R-OH) is applauding U.S. Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer\u2019s announcement that pursuant to the Joint Statement of May 17, 2019 to address the transshipment of grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), Mexico will establish a strict monitoring regime for exports of electrical transformer laminations and cores made of non-North American GOES.\n\n\u201cI am thankful President Trump and USTR Lighthizer have taken meaningful action to protect steel jobs in Zanesville and Butler,\u201d said Balderson. \u201cThis announcement marks a crucial step forward in the fight to protect American steel, American manufacturing, and more than one thousand well-paying jobs in Ohio and Pennsylvania. If AK Steel\u2019s manufacturing of electrical steel is edged out by foreign competitors, not only will Ohioans lose their jobs, but the integrity of the American electrical grid will be in peril. I am committed to working together with my colleagues and the Administration to ensure the future quality and safety of America\u2019s critical infrastructure\u2014our electrical grid\u2014from complete reliance on foreign manufacturers of steel.\u201d\n\nThe announcement follows a year-long effort by Balderson urging the administration to address unfair trade practices that threaten AK Steel\u2019s Zanesville, Ohio, and Butler, Pa., steel facilities. AK Steel, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs, is the last remaining North American producer of GOES, which is a crucial element of the United States electrical grid.\n\nThis March, Congressmen Balderson and Mike Kelly (R-PA) called on President Trump to address the dramatic increase in GOES imported from Canada and Mexico\u2014two countries that have no domestic capacity to make GOES\u2014in the form of laminations and cores.\n\nIn April, Balderson joined Kelly and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) in calling on President Trump to cover derivative electrical steel products (laminations and cores) under the administration\u2019s Section 232 program.\n\nEarlier this week, Lourenco Goncalves, Chairman, President, and CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs said, \u201cThese actions should be viewed as a condemnation of those seeking to circumvent tariffs and quotas imposed under our trade laws and of companies abusing the steel Section 232 product exclusion process.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-28T00:39:51Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://balderson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1894"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5507300850003958, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}