[A. Pole]

"What is happening now is not unique," said Robin Wiener, president of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, the dealers' trade group. Attempts to restrict scrap exports, she said, are "just clearly a smoke screen attempt to control the price of scrap" and would be a "distortion of free trade."

Free trade shall not be denied! Anyway these metals will return in the form of finished products.

[RogueIsland]

Anyway these metals will return in the form of finished products.

As car stereos, or JDAMs?

[sarcasm]

Anyway these metals will return in the form of finished products.

[Gorzaloon]

"We do something good for America," he said. "We do something good for China."

Here is the good it has done my business:

Stainless Steel, Copper, and tin , my raw materials, are all up 40%. I have certain constraints as to how much I can raise my sales prices, so I now have the joy of working for Yuan instead of dollars.

But metal prices go up, and they can go down as well, so I'll just hang in there for a while.