Trump wants to negotiate a deal where everyone comes out ahead.
The Globalists want to negotiate a deal where the US loses.
I expect more winning.
Trump wants to negotiate a deal where everyone comes out ahead.
The Globalists want to negotiate a deal where the US loses.
Please read my tagline.
Exactly right.
The ideologues care solely about ideology and their anti-US agenda.
Everything you need to know about world steel production and consumption:
https://www.worldsteel.org/en/dam/jcr:0474d208-9108-4927-ace8-4ac5445c5df8/World+Steel+in+Figures+2017.pdf
China produces over half of the world's steel. The United States has fallen to 4th place in world production, and our steel output continues to drop year over year. We currently import a third of the steel we consume.
Here's the relevant stats for Aluminum production:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-aluminum-producing-nations-in-the-world.html
What is not reported in regard to aluminum production is that the United States had 22 operating aluminum smelters in 2002. Today, the number is four, and one of them only operates due to a substantial subsidy from the State of New York. United States aluminum production has been reduced to pre-World War 2 levels.
My brother in law worked in the aluminum industry, until Alcoa closed their Port Lavaca Texas plant. A good friend works in the steel industry; he says they cannot compete price-wise with the cheap Chinese imports.
While the tariff doesn't discuss the chemical industry, another friend works in the Agrichemical industry, and he says they are feeling the effects of cheap Asian fertilizers entering the American market. You may not like tariffs or protectionism, you may think they subsidize inefficient industries. But if you want an advanced industrial economy, you have to do something to protect your industry from predation.
If you don't want an advanced industrial economy, enjoy your eventual economic serfdom.