To: TigerLikesRooster
2 posted on
06/22/2008 9:33:49 PM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: indcons; TigersEye
3 posted on
06/22/2008 9:34:38 PM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: bruinbirdman
I guess cartels like OPEC exist in many businesses.
This is a big deal in China - they can’t stand being held hostage like this. Welcome to the real world!
4 posted on
06/22/2008 9:38:34 PM PDT by
PGR88
To: bruinbirdman
"freight costs from Australia to China collapsed last week by 37 per cent "While someone is pissed over ore, another is happy in exports.
6 posted on
06/22/2008 9:50:55 PM PDT by
endthematrix
(Congress, Get Off Your Gas, And Drill!)
To: bruinbirdman
Just thinking that the quality of Chinese steel products is inferior, I Googled "quality of chinese steel." The results were as I expected. On a positive note, there's lots of room for them to improve. :-\
I just read over a September 2007 Kiplinger article titled New Threat from China: Shoddy Steel Imports. The author, an associate editor, points out Kiplinger's impartiality in the comments section following the article.
Among other tidbits, the article stated that "The biggest concern is hollow structural sections widely used in construction" and "Chinese high-strength steel tubes and pipes are also a potential problem." It also mentioned that China is the second-largest supplier of high-strength steel to the U.S., after Canada.
8 posted on
06/22/2008 10:01:07 PM PDT by
FoxInSocks
(B. Hussein Obama: The Paucity of Hope)
To: bruinbirdman
China’s trade surplus, if there is such a thing, will be going way down.
To: bruinbirdman
I wonder what they would pay for Detroit.
12 posted on
06/22/2008 10:07:23 PM PDT by
djf
(I don't believe in perpetual motion. Perpetual mutton, that's another thing entirely!)
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