Show Use Am orient stool for can Senator Orrin Hatch tacked tack-ed an amendment on the Military Construction authorization auth-orization bill that bans the use of foreign steel in the construction of shelters or bases of the MX missile system. sys-tem. The bill was passed. 'Utah is slated to be home to at least part of the missile mis-sile system and is now home to a steel mill facing serious problems caused in part by unfair competition from foreign for-eign steel. We shouldn't be expected to bear the im -' pact of development for the missile and have the steel come from out of the country too.' For the past several years we have seen the balance of payments of the U.S. fall deeper into deficit. We face an influx of foreign imports of many products. The steel industry has been particularly particu-larly hard hit by the situation. situa-tion. MX will require as much as a million metric tons of steel. My amendment is a guarantee that it will be a million tons of American steel.' |