Has the White House backtracked on their “Buy American Steel” slogan to get Keystone XL to drop their NAFTA lawsuit against the US? It certainly looks like it – PB/TK
White House: Keystone exempt from ‘Buy American’ requirements – By BEN LEFEBVRE
The Keystone XL Pipeline will not be subject to President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring infrastructure projects to be built with American steel, a White House spokeswoman said today.
Trump signed the order calling for the Commerce Department to develop a plan for U.S. steel to be used in “all new pipelines, as well as retrofitted, repaired or expanded pipelines” inside the U.S. projects “to the maximum extent possible.”
By the White House’s judgment, that description would not include Keystone XL, which developer TransCanada first proposed in 2008.
“The Keystone XL Pipeline is currently in the process of being constructed, so it does not count as a new, retrofitted, repaired or expanded pipeline,” the White House spokeswoman said.
That interpretation removes one potential hurdle for Keystone, and it clarifies shifting rhetoric from Trump on the order.
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