[rurgan]

I city in China makes 90% of the world's electronics.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/inside-shenzhen-china-s-gadget-capital/

china stole U.S. technology and now they dominate in electronics .China is now trying to destroy the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.

Go Trump!

[redgolum]

China HAS destroyed the steel industry. We are trying to rebuild it.

It is also why I am not very comfortable getting to close to train tracks now a days.

[ek_hornbeck]

What advocates of "free trade" don't or can't admit is that US companies incur an overhead that doesn't exist in other countries, and that the only reason foreign manufacturing has a competitive advantage is that they engage in practices that we would not tolerate.

For instance, Chinese companies and those elsewhere in the developing world have the "luxury" of dumping industrial waste raw into their rivers or into the ground, we do not. The Chinese government heavily subsidizes certain industries, including steel manufacturing - which allows them to produce at cost or at loss, which our firms don't do. Since we aren't going to go back to dumping untreated industrial waste or having government subsidies of overproduction (nor should we), imposing tariffs on foreign manufactured goods simply levels the playing field by recognizing these realities.

[Bigg Red]

Go,Trump! MAGA