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gonna trade from the UK? What happened to production of those two things here in America? Remember putting America back to work?? Another example of Trump screwing over his base with more lies!
Diamond_Dog
(40,076 posts)brush
(61,033 posts)and provide American jobs immediately. The moron still deosn't seem to get that tariffs are not paid by foreign countries.
Jerry2144
(3,210 posts)Inside a steel foundry are probably made overseas and will take many months to build, skip, install, test, then operate. Will his stupid idea of tariffs apply on the equipment you actually do the manufacturing here in the US?
Its not like the Helpful Hardware Folk have blast furnaces on sale with a BOGO, let alone in stock
brush
(61,033 posts)101, and a mean, arrogant, always lecturing someone VP just itching to invoke the 25th Amendment.
The rethugs in Congress know trump is losing/has lost his faculties but are still to cowardly to retake the powers of the purse he has usurped from them.
The next few months are going to be rough as the tariffs on imported goods still haven't fully kicked in.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Lithos
(26,609 posts)So, having a consistent supply of energy is important. Even before people could conceive of building Aluminum capacity, we'll have to build out the rest of the supporting infrastructure. Looking at 10-20 years.
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Silent Type
(12,412 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Baitball Blogger
(51,895 posts)Even if Trump is too stupid to see it, everyone else knows about the Time Conundrum. No company is going to make it to Trump's mythical Golden Age. Everyone will go under long before that foundation is laid out on the first factory built in America.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Bev54
(13,320 posts)Doesn't make a lot of sense.
Doodley
(11,777 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,824 posts)https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/aluminum
https://www.uksteel.org/steel-news-2025/us-25-tariffs-on-uk-steel-imports-come-into-effect
https://www.tradeimex.in/blogs/us-steel-import-data-list-of-top-us-steel-buyers-and-imports-by-country
This is not a big deal. Literally.
