Trump credits tariffs as Coosa Steel rebounds, owner says orders returned

Donald J. Trump visited Coosa Steel in Rome, Georgia, and attributed the plant’s revival to tariff policies he said he implemented.

"We just spoke. It's booming," Trump said, praising new equipment and telling the crowd the plant moved from "one hour a week" of production back up to multiple shifts because of tariffs. He said an October order produced a seven‑month backlog and enabled the company to expand to two or three shifts.

Andrew Seville, introduced as president of Coosa Steel, told the audience he joined the company in 2001 and said the tire‑rack business declined around 2010. "In October 2025, we landed our first huge tire rack deal that we had in 10 years," Seville said, adding the order would keep the racks department busy for "two shifts a day, six days a week" and that shipments were headed to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

Trump framed the plant’s turnaround as evidence that tariffs and the broader tax package had revived U.S. manufacturing. He described expanding tariffs to cover hundreds of derivative products and said litigation over the policy is pending before the Supreme Court; those legal proceedings and the outcomes are not documented in the transcript.

The transcript records Trump’s statements of production changes, backlogs and policy effects as claims made to the audience; the transcript does not provide independent verification of the production figures, the size of the order, or the impact of tariffs beyond the speakers’ assertions.

The event closed with Trump saying he planned to return in two years to check on the mill’s growth.