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Nippon Steel Menghadapi Tantangan dalam Akuisisi Ambisius Baja AS sebesar $20 Miliar

Feb 09 (News On Japan) - Pada bulan Desember 2023, Nippon Steel berhasil mencapai kesepakatan senilai 2 triliun yen untuk mengakuisisi US Steel, perusahaan baja terkemuka di Amerika. Namun, munculnya konflik dari serikat pekerja dan mantan Presiden Donald Trump menambah kompleksitas situasi. Serikat pekerja mengklaim bahwa Presiden Biden turut mengekspresikan ketidaksetujuannya terhadap akuisisi tersebut, yang berpotensi menjadikan isu ini sebagai pusat perdebatan dalam pemilihan presiden bulan November. Hal ini semakin meningkatkan tingkat kesulitan yang dihadapi oleh Nippon Steel dalam mengamankan kesepakatan tersebut.

Langkah ambisius Nippon Steel dalam memperluas jangkauan globalnya melalui akuisisi US Steel, salah satu produsen baja terkemuka di Amerika Serikat, telah menciptakan perdebatan yang substansial mengenai masa depan industri baja, kekhawatiran terkait keamanan nasional, dan implikasinya terhadap pekerjaan dan komunitas. Oposisi yang muncul dari para pemimpin politik dan serikat pekerja yang berpengaruh menyoroti kompleksitas dalam melakukan transaksi bisnis internasional, terutama ketika melibatkan sektor-sektor yang memiliki peran krusial.

Shinichiro Ozaki, seorang analis senior di Daiwa Securities, dan Takashi Imamura, seorang direktur di Marubeni Economic Research Institute, telah bersama kami dalam sesi diskusi untuk mengevaluasi kemungkinan terlaksananya akuisisi tersebut, yang dihadapi dengan tantangan yang semakin meningkat.

Penolakan terhadap akuisisi ini bukan hanya isu bisnis, tetapi dengan cepat menjadi permasalahan geopolitik yang mencerminkan ketegangan yang lebih luas antara nasionalisme ekonomi dan upaya perusahaan untuk berkembang secara global. Dengan pemilihan presiden yang akan segera dilaksanakan, nasib kesepakatan ini dapat terpengaruh oleh kekuatan politik, menimbulkan ketidakpastian terkait penyelesaiannya bagi Nippon Steel.

Seiring berlanjutnya pembahasan, kemungkinan hasil dari rencana akuisisi ini akan memiliki dampak yang signifikan pada industri baja global, hubungan perdagangan internasional, dan posisi strategis perusahaan-perusahaan besar dalam konteks geopolitik yang meluas.

Source: テレ東BIZ

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