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NSC | 菜創郭肱利: Weekly Articles of Interest – March 19, 2024 X App Headline (80-character limit): • NEW: Articles of Interest – Nippon Steel | U. S. Steel Proposed Transaction Sub-headline (80-character limit): • EXPANDED EDITION for the week of March 18, 2024 Description (300-character limit): • Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of U. S. Steel generated a significant amount of media coverage over the last week, so we’re super sizing this week’s edition in this series to ensure you see the strong, continued support being expressed for this deal. Click to read more. Accompanying visuals: Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4

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Image 11 Image 12 Image 13 Image 14 Image 15 Image 16 Body copy (no character limits): Below are links to recent articles of interest*, along with statements from organizations and individuals in the business and policy world, gathered in one place to save you time and help you keep up with the latest news. Visit BestDealForAmericanSteel.com for additional information about this proposed transaction and to sign up to receive alerts when updates are posted to the site. * Please note: Some articles included in this series may require subscriptions to view

Opinion and Editorial Board Pieces o The Wall Street Journal (March 14, 2024): Biden’s Nippon Steel Fiasco (attached) o Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure DC Journal opinion piece (March 14, 2024): Fighting Steel Deal Makes Perfect the Enemy of the Good Aii website blog (March 8, 2024): Infrastructure Upholds Us. What Upholds It? Steel. o Washington Times (March 14, 2024): Let the world invest in America: Nippon-U.S. Steel merger should be approved o RealClear Markers (March 15, 2024): With U. S. Steel’s Acquisition Don’t Let Politics Triumph Over Economics o Cato Institute (March 15, 2024): On the Nippon Steel – U. S. Steel Deal, Politics (Again) Tops Policy o Reason Magazine (March 15, 2024): The U. S. Steel/Nippon Steel Deal Should Be None of Joe Biden’s Business o Townhall (March 16, 2024): Preserve Economic Growth and National Security by Unraveling the Politics from the U. S. Steel Deal Third-Party Statements o U.S. Chamber of Commerce (March 14, 2024): Statement from John Murphy, Senior Vice President and Head of International o Global Business Alliance (March 14, 2024): Statement from Nancy McLernon, President & CEO o Nikkei Asia (March 15, 2024): Major U. S. Steel shareholder Pentwater supports Nippon Steel deal Comments by David Zirin, chief operating officer of Pentwater Capital Management, including: "We support Nippon Steel's bid to acquire U. S. Steel. Nippon has committed to make large capital expenditures to improve U. S. Steel's existing blast furnace infrastructure which supports American job creation. We believe the transaction with Nippon is a benefit to both Nippon as well as to all U. S. Steel stakeholders. It has been widely reported that Cleveland Cliffs is very upset that its inferior bid to purchase U. S. Steel was rejected. It is Pentwater's belief that Nippon Steel is a much better partner for U. S. Steel and as a result Pentwater would vote its shares against any offer made by Cleveland Cliffs to purchase U. S. Steel." o Nikkei Asia (March 14, 2024): Biden says U. S. Steel should remain American-owned Comments by U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Wisconsin and the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, including: "Given everything that the Nippon Steel executives have said about what they plan to do, honoring labor agreements, I don't think there's a national security concern at all.” Comments by Kenneth Weinstein, the Japan chair at Hudson Institute, including: "This isn't about acquiring a prized U.S. asset. It's about investing in an American company, creating jobs in Pennsylvania, and training workers in cutting-edge technologies."

o The Washington Post (March 13, 2024): Biden calls American ownership of U. S. Steel ‘vital’ as he opposes deal Comments by Dan Price, managing director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, who was the top White House official on international trade and investment during the George W. Bush administration, including: “I am unaware of any president preemptively signaling he may oppose an acquisition that is undergoing national security review, much less an acquisition by a company from a treaty partner that we are obligated to defend with U.S. troops.” o David Faber, co-anchor CNBC’s Squawk on the Street – March 14 episode of Squawk on the Street: “There is virtually nobody who would argue that Japan represents a national security risk. In fact, the technology transfer in this case is going from Japan to the US where there would be significant potential upgrades of it.” o Shihoko Goto, director of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center – March 14 statement on X (formerly known as Twitter): “US domestic politics is defining what should be up to two private companies to decide. The US Steel/Nippon Steel debate is also driving a harmful wedge between otherwise solid partner nations[.]” o Mireya Solis, director of the Center for Asia Policy Studies at Brookings Institution – March 14 statement on X (formerly known as Twitter): “This throws sand in the wheels of U.S.-Japan economic cooperation. Who will believe us when we appeal to the spirit of ‘friend-shoring’?”

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2024 © 2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. By The Editorial Board Everyone knows the Trump-Biden election campaign is going to be nasty, brutish and not short enough, but the unknown is how much policy damage it will do. One unfolding example is the fiasco of self-destructive opposi-tion to Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel. T h e A m e r i c a n p o l i t i c a l consensus used to be that foreign investment is a sign of U.S. economic strength and a source of good-paying jobs. Protection-ists focused on blocking imported goods that compete with Amer-ican products. But now they’re targeting even investment in U.S. manufacturing from friendly countries. That’s the case with Nippon Steel’s non-hostile $14.1 billion offer to buy U.S. Steel, a venerable American name that has fallen well down the ranks of world producers. Nippon Steel execu-tives plan a major capital infusion to make U.S. Steel more produc-tive. But the merger is opposed by Cleveland-Cliffs, a U.S. Steel competitor, and the United Steel-workers, and the politicians are following like sheep. The latest is President Biden, who issued a statement Thursday expressing his opposition to the sale to Nippon Steel: “U.S. Steel has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated.” The world is awash in steel, so it isn’t clear why steel must be made in the U.S. But if steel is made in U.S., why is it “vital” that it be “domestically owned”? Nippon Steel is the world’s fourth-largest steel maker and far more efficient than U.S. Steel’s The Publisher’s Sale Of This Reprint Does Not Constitute Or Imply Any Endorsement Or Sponsorship Of Any Product, Service, Company Or Organization. Custom Reprints 800.803.9100 www.djreprints.com DO NOT EDIT OR ALTER REPRINT/REPRODUCTIONS NOT PERMITTED 2474650 Biden’s Nippon Steel Fiasco The President opposes the Japanese firm’s purchase of U.S. Steel under pressure from unions and Donald Trump, which will hurt America. OPINION | REVIEW & OUTLOOK © 2024 Dow Jones & Co. Inc. Licensed Use: Web post and organic social media Licensed to: Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher Expiration Date: 03/20/2025 The United States Steel Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant in Clairton, Pa., is shown on Monday, Feb. 26. PHOTO: GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS

aging plants. Nippon Steel’s expertise and capital would enhance U.S. economic strength by making U.S. Steel’s operations more competitive. Nippon Steel already employs some 4,000 Americans, and it has wanted to expand here for some time. One reason is the 25% tariff on steel imports that Donald Trump imposed and Mr. Biden hasn’t lifted. Manufacturers are moving to the U.S., especially from Europe, to avoid U.S. tariffs and take advantage of lower-cost Amer-ican energy and the vast subsidies for green energy. The U.S. needs more steel to meet this demand. But the political opposition to Nippon Steel isn’t about the economic merits. It’s about Cleve-land-Cliffs, the steelworkers union and the electoral competition for blue-collar workers in November. Like U.S. Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs is a unionized U.S. company. Its CEO, Lourenco Goncalves, is sore because U.S. Steel rejected his merger offer as inadequate last year. Smart move. Nippon Steel’s bid is roughly double what Cleveland-Cliffs offered. Cleveland-Cliffs and its political patrons in the Ohio and Penn-sylvania Senate delegations are now lobbying furiously to block the Japanese company’s purchase. Donald Trump also opposes the deal, claiming to be a tribune of the working man. I f y o u r e a l l y c a r e a b o u t workers, Nippon Steel’s bid is better. The firm has promised to honor the United Steelworkers collective-bargaining agreement and says it won’t move current U.S. production or jobs overseas. A more competitive U.S. Steel is less likely to have to lay off workers in the future. Mr. Biden as President is s u p p o s e d to re p re s e n t t h e national interest, and maintaining America’s reputation for inviting foreign capital really is a “vital” interest. So is treating allies well, and mistreating a Japanese firm as hostile won’t make friends in Tokyo. Mr. Biden has already jolted allies with his recent deci-sion to stop approvals for lique-fied natural gas export projects. Barring Nippon Steel for political reasons sends a rotten message to friends—especially since it would be a boon to Chinese steel makers that compete with Nippon. Mr. Biden’s rhetorical interven-tion is also a bad look because his government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is reviewing Nippon Steel’s bid. His comments look like an attempt to tilt the committee, which is composed of executive branch agencies, against the acquisition. It’s the kind of thing you’d expect from Mr. Trump. And that may explain it. Mr. Biden is scared of Mr. Trump’s trade shadow, which is leading to many bad economic deci-sions. The political competition to appear to be populist—while really being corporatist—is going to do a lot more harm in the next seven months.

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If you really care about workers, Nippon Steel’s bid is better. [...] A more competitive U. S. Steel is less likely to have to lay off workers in the future. Editorial Board March 14, 2024

T h e r e is vir t u ally n o b o d y w h o w o uld a r g u e t h a t J a p a n r e p r e s e n t s a n a tio n al s e c u rit y ris k. In f a c t, t h e t e c h n olo g y t r a n s f e r in t his c a s e is g oin g f r o m J a p a n t o t h e U.S. w h e r e t h e r e w o uld b e sig nific a n t p o t e n tial upgrades of it. M a r c h 1 4, 2 0 2 4 D a vid Fa b e r C o - A n c h o r S q u a w k B o x

Given everything that the Nippon Steel executives have said about what they plan to do, honoring labor agreements, I don't think there's a national security concern at all. March 14, 2024 Chairman, House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Rep. Mike Gallagher R - Wisconsin, 8th District

Nippon has committed to make large capital expenditures to improve U. S. Steel's existing blast furnace infrastructure which supports American job creation. March 15, 2024 David Zirin Chief Operating Officer Pentwater Capital Management

I am unaware of any president preemptively signaling he may oppose an acquisition that is undergoing national security review, much less an acquisition by a company from a treaty partner that we are obligated to defend with U.S. troops. March 13, 2024 Dan Price Managing Director Rock Creek Global Advisors

Contrary to knee-jerk opposition based on outdated sentiments, Nippon's investment will modernize U. S. Steel's technological capabilities, foster innovation, increase productivity, and improve cost efficiency. March 16, 2024 Andrew Langer President Institute for Liberty

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