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To: presidio9
What higher steel prices?

Everyone keeps parroting this, but no one seems to want to bother with the facts at hand.
3 posted on 12/05/2003 7:38:44 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
no one seems to want to bother with the facts at hand

Good point. What, then, are the facts at hand?

4 posted on 12/05/2003 7:45:24 AM PST by presidio9 (protectionism is a false god)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
Are they not higher? Relative to? It's a near certainty that an unprotected commodity's price will be lower relative to the protected one. That's the whole premise behind protective tariffs.
5 posted on 12/05/2003 7:53:33 AM PST by Mr. Bird
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