Posted on 06/01/2018 6:05:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Umm, tariffs will not hurt profits at all. As for the stock market, it is a globalist casino and does not reflect main street health.
Steve Moore and Larry Kudlow = Free Traitors™.
We stopped manufacturing steel because other countries could sell it to us cheaper and we couldn’t export into those countries. Now we have to pay THEIR price for steel.
It’s like oil. Mideast cheap oil was a great thing until OPEC discovered extortion.
Why is it, that not one article states the fact that these countries put tariffs on our goods, or that they artificially reduce the price of their steel and aluminum to flood into out country. Also, that these materials are not as good as ours.
Mr. Ross withdrew the exemptions on Thursday, saying the U.S. “was unable to reach satisfactory arrangements” with Canada, Mexico and the European Union. He means they didn’t unilaterally surrender.
Actually what it means is that they didn’t want to reach
a deal.
This BS belongs in the New York Times...
Then pay a tariff afterward on what you make to get your goods back in the country. We are the big consumer. We cut corporate taxes. Make it here and sell it here... much cheaper.
We get a feaver
Europe dies
exactly, and we are in a growing economy which positions us to take these steps.
The US govt used to fund itself solely with tariffs. Of course, the globalist, CofC-loving WSJ is against these changes. The whole idea of these bad trade deals was to cut down the US to size by de-industrializing it. A lot of this happened during Clinton’s presidency.
Many have a Stockholm Syndrome approach to tariffs. This country’s industries have been sold out by the globalists for decades, and the populace so propagandized by “free trade” that they choose to remain in these horrendous trade deals.
I call it gas lighting. And may "Conservative" heroes spread that propaganda. Rush, Levin et al... Sorry but that is the sad truth.
Isn’t most Aluminum recycled?
I take this as partly a national security issue. If the playing field isn’t level then that also plays into it.
Complex...
Exactly. That’s why I’ve said that uniform tariffs on all products and raw materials make a heck of a lot more sense.
All that is being reported is what Trump is doing to them. Research it and see what EUROPE is doing to US. These Trump tariffs are PART OF THE DEAL ... you hit them hard, they don’t like it and trade policies change. But without the tariffs from Trump, Europe lends a deaf ear to the imbalance in their favor, and has done so for years.
Now, it appears tariffs were a key part of a new and effective Trump strategy.
How many times in the future are "journalists" going to use this phrase? :-)
Protectionism worked great for America for 180 years. We lowered the import tariffs and have been losing industries and jobs and knowledge ever since. And now we are far too dependent on other countries.
If most aluminum was recycled than I’m not sure we’d even need tariffs — right?
Reciprocal is the word for 1 on 1 trade. And laundering product via NAFTA is cheating via loophole. Both need to stop, and Trump is making it happen. They were warned, and given chances to self correct. They didn’t.
I’m fine with higher prices till it changes. Sacrificing for the long term. And we will win long term.
The free ride is over.
Dear World: Get used to it.
Dear handwringers: f’off.
MAGA!!!!!
Alumina extracted from bauxite ore (10 to 25 percent content) is electrically processed to get aluminum. The “Red Mud” alkali heavy waste from Bauxite processing is a big problem, just like any other tailing storage from mining with chemical extraction.
Virtually all the raw ore is found in the tropics. The separated aluminum oxides are transported for the metal’s extraction. Most of the aluminum production favors access of the lower cost hydroelectric facilities as extraction is a purely electrically driven process.
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