Crews are removing two steel pipes that fell off a truck Tuesday evening on the outbound side of the Kennedy Expressway near Lake Street.

Traffic was slowed on the outbound Kennedy Expressway near Lake Street early Wednesday morning as crews worked to remove steel poles from the shoulder following a crash involving a semitruck late Tuesday night.

Two motorists were injured after steel pipes fell off a semi and onto the Kennedy Expressway on Tuesday night.

President Trump’s refusal to allow exemptions to his planned tariffs on imported steel will help keep domestic steel prices rising, Cleveland-Cliffs Chief Executive Lourenco Goncalves said. The spot market price for sheet steel in the U.

Canada and Mexico are the leading exporters of steel to the US, but most of their products likely can be readily produced in the US, Bloomberg Intelligence analysis shows.

Cleveland-Cliffs stock fell early Tuesday after the steel maker reported weaker-than-expected earnings. Demand for steel remains soft while President Donald Trump’s tariffs take effect and as Nippon Steel and U.