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U.S. Steel warned the state of Indiana its "indefinite idling" of East Chicago Tin because of an abrupt decline in the tin can business will displace 307 workers, though the steelmaker said the total number of layoffs will more likely total around 150.

Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel said it hopes to transfer more than 150 displaced workers to Gary Works and the Midwest Plant in Portage, where it also operates tin mills.

The company has filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development saying all units, divisions and departments at the tin mill would be affected when it is idled November and December.

"The indefinite idling of operations is due to the consolidation of the company's tin mill products production from three to two facilities following extensive market analysis of our current global competitiveness in light of high levels of low-priced imported tin mill products entering the United States," U.S. Steel Employee Relations Director James Van Buren wrote in the WARN letter to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. "The idling is not expected to be permanent but will be of an indefinite duration."

U.S. Steel said the employment losses from the indefinitely idling will start on Nov. 9 and continue through the end of December.