Trump's sweeping tariffs on steel will kill off some US steel jobs

Farrell, Pennsylvania

MICK Lang has been a steelworker for nearly 40 years and voted for businessman Donald Trump in the hopes he would bring about a renaissance for the long-suffering US steel industry - now he worries that President Trump's tariffs on imports of the metal will cost him his job.

"This is not what I voted for. I voted for Trump because I thought he'd straighten things out, not do something like this," said Mr Lang, 59, a third-generation steelworker, whose son also works at the same steel mill in Farrell in western Pennsylvania's Mercer County.

The county voted for then-Republican candidate Mr Trump by more than 24 points in the 2016 US presidential election. Some Republican strategists said that Mr Trump's tariffs appeared partly to be timed to…