Japan's Nippon Steel has proposed giving the U.S. government veto power over any potential cuts to U.S. Steel's production capacity, as part of its efforts to secure President Joe Biden's approval for acquiring the American steelmaker,

Japan's Nippon Steel is aiming to gain U.S. approval for its bid to acquire U.S. Steel by proposing veto power for the U.S. government over production capacity cuts. President Biden must approve the deal by January 7 or it will be automatically permitted.

It may not be as damaging as Herbert Hoover’s Smoot-Hawley tariffs, or Richard Nixon’s wage-price controls, but a decision by President Biden to block the Nippon-U.S. Steel deal woul