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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTOI Correspondent from Washington<\/span>: India\u2019s Essar Group found itself at the center of MAGA supremo Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d industrial push on Monday after the US President announced a planned $15 billion steel plant in Iowa, calling it the largest steel plant in American history.\u201cToday, we\u2019re thrilled to announce that Mesabi Metallics will be building the largest steel plant in American history in the great state of Iowa,\u201d Trump said at a surprise White House event, flanked by Essar chairman Rewant Ruia and other executives.The proposed plant, to be built by Essar-owned Mesabi Metallics, is expected initially to produce about 7.5 million tons of steel a year, potentially rising to 10 million tons, and create about 1,750 permanent jobs. Another 5,000-6,000 jobs are projected during construction, with first production targeted for 2030.For the MAGA boss, the announcement is another showcase for his claim that tariffs and his \u201cAmerica First\u201d policies are pulling manufacturing and investment back into the US For Essar, it represents an extraordinary second act for an American project that has been almost two decades in the making.While the Mesabi announcement highlighted Trump\u2019s drive to bring back manufacturing, particularly of steel, back to America, its backstory is much older than the MAGA boss\u2019 current industrial campaign. The project began with Minnesota Steel Industries in the early 2000s and was acquired by Essar in 2007. The company envisioned an integrated mine, pellet plant and steel operation that would turn Minnesota ore into American steel.But the project suffered financing and construction problems, missed deadlines and eventually entered bankruptcy in 2016. Minnesota terminated Essar’s mineral leases, while contractors and public authorities were left with substantial claims. The project was subsequently restructured and taken over by Mesabi Metallics, with Essar eventually returning to the financing structure. The mine now beginning operations is therefore the culmination of a roughly 20-year industrial saga, not a project suddenly conceived or negotiated by Trump.Still, Trump\u2019s role is nevertheless significant in that his tariffs have altered the economics of imported steel, while the US Export-Import Bank has offered as much as $10 billion in financing support for the Mesabi operation. \u201cWithout those tariffs, this mine doesn\u2019t get built and this steel plant does not get built,\u201d commerce secretary Howard Lutnick asserted during the announcement.For Essar, meanwhile, the Iowa plan marks another ambitious chapter in a remarkable Indian corporate journey. Founded by brothers Shashi and Ravi Ruia in 1969, Essar grew from a construction and engineering company into a sprawling industrial conglomerate spanning steel, oil, energy, shipping and infrastructure, becoming one of India’s most aggressive global investors, accumulating major assets in Britain, North America and elsewhere. But its expansion also brought heavy debt and restructuring. Essar eventually sold its Indian steel business to ArcelorMittal-Nippon Steel and its oil business to Russia’s Rosneft, transactions that helped reshape the group and reduce its Indian bank debt.Its first American steel venture left a more complicated legacy. Minnesota critics continue to point to the 2016 bankruptcy, missed commitments and public infrastructure spending as evidence that the state paid a price for Essar’s failure to deliver. There is also a striking political irony in Monday’s announcement. Some of the more extreme nativist voices on the American right have attacked the project precisely because its owner is Indian, warning \u2014 without evidence \u2014 that an Essar-owned steel mill means an influx of H-1B workers or the outsourcing of American jobs.Republican leaders nevertheless embraced the announcement. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley called it \u201cGR8 NEWS,\u201d describing the project as a \u201cHUGE investment\u201d that would bring about 1,700 good-paying jobs. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise declared: \u201cAMERICAN STEEL IS BACK!\u201d citing the $15 billion investment and eventual 10 million tons of production.There is, fittingly, a piece of Minnesota cultural history embedded in the story. The great singer-songwriter and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan was born in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing, in the Iron Range whose fortunes were built on iron ore. In 1963, he wrote \u201cNorth Country Blues,\u201d a haunting account of a mining community emptied as the iron-ore economy collapsed.Nearly six decades later, Minnesota’s mines are producing again, and Essar’s ore is intended to travel south to feed a new American steel industry in Iowa.Trump is betting that this time, the red ore will keep moving, into a steel mill that, if Essar delivers on its promise, will begin making American steel in 2030.<\/div>\n Donald Trump with Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Essar Capital Director Prashant Ruia, Mesabi Metallics Chairman Rewant Ruia and Mesabi Metallics CEO Joe Broking (AP Photo) TOI Correspondent from Washington: India\u2019s Essar Group found itself at the center of MAGA supremo Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d industrial push on Monday after the US President announced a planned 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