Then pay to have it upgraded.
It would be verging on the insane for us not to be able to produce steel as a nation. Surely it's a matter of national security?
It's not just about safe-guarding jobs. It would be ludicrously naive to increase our dependency of foreign nations to produce our steel. Even if it costs more to produce it here, when you factor 20,000 people on the dole I wonder how those figures stack up.