It is, of course, anti-capitalistic and inherently socialist for the government to dictate to a private company where it should source its materials, but then again so is giving the company subsidies in the first place. If you want to dictate where a company sources, then it should be written into the subsidy agreement. I suspect many companies would balk at that though. In most cases subsidies are provided in the expectation of a company creating jobs - the questions are, is the project creating the jobs it was expected to, and was there ever any expectation with the original subsidies that sourcing of steel would be local?
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