US slaps 522% import tax on Steel

oh lookie the president wants a trade war with china


China doesn't make anything we can't live without.
Those electronics ... the components are almost all of them made elsewhere and china just puts them together.

[b"How in the hell does it help them if they kill us off?"

just an observation…

I have been wondering the same thing for a while...

In Nature you see a lot of examples of humanity… natural selection, murder between species sometimes… and parasites.

This concept is "foreign" to the working populace. This concept is "foreign" to most of the plant kingdom… most species struggle to survive, thrive, and reproduce. The parasite has a different "ideology". It will GROW, usually at a very quick rate, SURPASS it's host, ROB NUTRIENTS, SUNLIGHT, and literally STRANGLE it's HOST. It could care less…. it is a different species. It is just a FACT of Nature. It IS.

Man is the only species that if a large amount of the HERD could embrace the same principals, the PARASITE could be CAST OFF. That is the reason for MIND CONTROL of the COLLECTIVE…. but that is another topic entirely.

Hard to say, remember we still have business expenses like OSHA, unemployment, SS, workers compensation, not to mention liability insurance for the people who sue the company when they get their feelings hurt.

Retard! Wait til you need to build something using steel… or rent the office space. You idiots are so short sighted and stupid it is astounding. SOCIALISM means you MUST PAY MORE… and where do you think the money goes????

The infrastructure for producing steel was removed from us, and what is left is in the hands of foreigners…. You MAD ENOUGH YET????

yup because Americans would have to go to REAL WORK -

imagine getting millennials to work in a steel mill !!

They did the same thing with aluminum 5 years ago, but it had a lot more to do with Goodman Sachs getting in to the commodity business than it did about bringing jobs back to the U.S. It actually did more to hurt US jobs, because the higher duty was only on aluminum extrusions used to manufacture other products. The duty didn't apply to finished good that used the extrusions, so it led to more manufacturing in China and less jobs here. It only helped a handful of large US extrusion companies and allowed Goldman to fix the price on raw aluminum.

And you know this because.....?

Your house has a steel roof?

Bingo!

All metals will rise as a result as well.

Except the part where foreigners now own most of the steel production in this country. What exactly do you think will be exported elsewhere through TPP and the rest of the secret trade deals? They are about sending materials and goods from this country overseas while importing the crap materials and goods from them. Raw materials to build up third world countries while cheap foreign workers are imported to work in those mills. All the while, wages for Americans stagnate while prices rise from less dollar usage around the world. The profligate debt spending is starting to come home to roost.

You're right, won't happen. What will happen is the cost of vehicles spiking again.

10 years ago I bought a fully loaded Z71 Suburban for $40k new. The2016 version is $68k. Next year will probably be closer to $90k.

Inflation is alive and well in America, and auto prices are a good indicator while gasoline is a poor indicator.

People inherently use gas as a metric of inflation, just like bread and milk because most people buy these products at least once a week and are very in tune with the prices.
If they keep the costs of common items under control then people are slow to realize inflation creeping up around them. They watch the price at the pump like a hawk and think all is well when gas hits a 10 year low, meanwhile they didn't realize the cost of a new model of the car they drive has nearly doubled while their wage has only risen a fraction of that.

Step 1 in TPTB's plan: De-industrialize the U.S.
Step 2: Slap huge tariffs on imported goods that are no longer produced in the U.S.

Result: Americans can no longer afford to purchase the products in question, which helps to destroy the middle class even faster.

You are building your roof from chinese steel??

oh lookie the president wants a trade war with china


China doesn't make anything we can't live without.
Those electronics ... the components are almost all of them made elsewhere and china just puts them together.


The TPP shifts a lot of that imported Chinese manufacturing into Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos. Much cheaper than China. China is about to see it's labor costs skyrocket. And learning from historical Chinese culture, they will cut even more corners to remain competitive. Many of their products are downright dangerous. Cracked steel for our bridges I've heard rumors of, lead painted toys, dangerous chemical storage facilities, bad food products, etc.

Proof yet again.....Trump is right with China and these corrupt trade deals.

Obama does not have an original thought in his head.



Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 05/18/2016 06:56 PM

I buy American made steel all the time and I don't mind paying more for it.

all in an effort to drive up the prices of guns

Yep. Time to fire up our steel plants again WhooHoo!!!!!

Including chicken parts? Baahaaahaaahaaaha

Please tell me that was a typo. Please!!!!

However, I could see kfc lobbyists pushing hard so the $5 fillups seem like a dream.

Chinese steel is noodle strength.

I've noticed, Magic Negro is taking tried and failed policies from Swedish socialists all the time.

Last Edited by -GLP-Christian- on 05/18/2016 07:45 PM

No. It's not a typo unfortunately.

But it is a disgusting topic that probably should have it's own thread.

You didn't know China is now processing a lot of our chicken meat?

DING!! WE GOT A WINNER

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Ok...this is a great test.
If all the tarifftards are right....we'll see Steel mills popping up in the good ol' USA hiring murikans to do murikan work.

hint: this won't happen

Yes it will...but it takes 3-4 years for the businesses to get up & running.

So don't be bitching when it all didn't play out in the first month of the Trump presidency!

God bless Donald Trump.

Building up for war. Only way to truly fight the Chinese is to get our production and manufacturing out of their country. This is all the beginning, I suppose.

No one realizes though that if production/manufacturing ends up being done in the West, then we will suffer from the same pollution as China does. Remember that China agreed to host all these facilities in the first place. They sacrificed health and clean air for a fortune.

Steel is in BIG demand in the US, because about half your population are in prison, and you need steel pants.

Good job USA. China fucked Australia with the iron ore, Us with the milk powder and tried it on with you guys with steel.