美國鋼鐵業(yè)：廉價進口鋼材威脅國家安全

The US steel industry is pushing the Trump administration to take a sweeping view of what constitutes national security, as it seeks a crackdown on imports from China, South Korea and other countries.

美國鋼鐵行業(yè)敦促特朗普政府全方位看待國家安全的內涵，目前該行業(yè)在爭取打擊從中國、韓國和其他國家的進口。

Donald Trump last month ordered a special investigation into the impact on US national security of steel imports under a 1962 law that would allow him to impose far broader tariffs and other restrictions on imports of foreign steel, in what would be the US president’s most significant act of protectionism so far.

上月，唐納德•特朗普(Donald Trump)下令依照一部1962年頒布的法律，對鋼鐵進口對美國國家安全的影響展開特別調查。根據該法律，他可以對進口鋼材全面實施關稅及其他限制，這可能會成為美國總統(tǒng)迄今最重大的保護主義行為。

At a hearing in Washington on Wednesday, industry executives argued that illegal dumping of below-cost steel threatened their ability to supply everything from armour plating and other specialty metals used by the military, to the steel used in electrical transformers and rebar vital to construction.

周三在華盛頓舉行的一個聽證會上，行業(yè)高管辯稱，以低于成本的價格非法傾銷鋼鐵，危及他們供應各類鋼材的能力——從裝甲鋼板和其他軍用特種金屬，到用于變壓器的鋼材，以及對建筑至關重要的螺紋鋼。

And they called for the investigation to take a broader view of national security, arguing that without a healthy steel industry the US would quickly lose its ability to produce products that were important to things like energy security and infrastructure.

他們呼吁上述調查更加全方位地看待國家安全，辯稱如果沒有健康的鋼鐵行業(yè)，美國將很快失去生產對能源安全和基礎設施十分重要的產品的能力。