Public Policy Inputs, Goals, Tools, and Effects in Business

This uproar caused countries like Russia, Brazil, and Japan to increase their countries steel production, which in many cases the countries produced not as high quality steel as the United States. In return this caused the United States to have a decline in the amount of income that they received in their steel production and President Bush removed the 30 percent tariff.

This discussion case is a great example of public policy inputs, goals, tools, as well as, effects. The input in this discussion case is the pressure of the decrease in steel trade with the United States of America. Like our textbook says, inputs are “external pressures that shape a government’s policy decisions and strategies to address problems (Lawrence & Weber p. 166)”. Because of the pressure associated with the steel trade, the President decided to apply a 30 percent tariff to bring in more income for the steel industry of America. Therefore the President created the 30 percent tariff, which was used to shape the United State’s government policy decisions.

The goals for this public policy were to basically help the United State’s steel industry by enforcing a 30 percent tariff on the steel that was sold to countries around the globe from the United States. This goal was just like our textbook stated, “High-minded or narrow and self serving (Lawrence & Weber p. 166). The goal for the United Stated policy only helped the United States, not the other countries that the United States did business with.

The tools used to complete this public policy were the enforcement of the 30 percent tariff, and the recession of the tariff, because both situations were used to make the public policy come together. Although, the policy itself did not really work for the United States, it caused other countries to produce the steel they needed even though it was not as good of quality as the steel that was produced in the United States.

Finally, the effects of the public policy was the outcome of the decision that the President made, which was other countries producing their own steel and the United States dropping the 30 percent tariff in order to keep their steel trade afloat. Both of these effects of the policy, where probably both a surprise for the President of the United States as well as the country of the United States, and the other countries that the United States dealt with.

Therefore though the United States underwent some changes in the steel industry and trade, the country overcame it as well as caused other countries to step up and produce their own products to trade with other countries. So, in the end all of the countries won.

Reference

Lawrence, A., & Weber, J. Business & Society

McGraw Hill Publishers, Inc (2008)