AUSTRALIAN STEEL AND ALUMINIUM EXPORTS INTO THE USA
* Australian steel accounts for only about 0.3 per cent of world production
* Australia produces about five to six million tonnes of steel a year, compared with 700 million tonnes in China
* BlueScope employs 3000 people at plants in California, Washington state and Ohio
* About 400,000 tonnes of steel a year is exported into the US from Australia to be used in BlueScope's plants
* It is cheaper to freight steel from Australia than it is to rail it from one side of the US to the other
* Donald Trump's new tariffs will force a cost impost onto BlueScope and affect American and Australian jobs
* In the US, Australian steel fulfils about 0.2 per cent of the market, while aluminium is 1.5 per cent of the market
* US market is worth about $274 million for steel and $276 million for aluminium, in terms of Australian exports.
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