[palmer]

A concrete example was the Bush administration’s 8% to 30% tariffs in 2002 on several types of imported steel. They were levied in an effort to protect jobs in the ailing U.S. steel industry.

Those were aimed at higher quality imports from Europe. Stupid and shows you need to pick your battles carefully. The best way to impose tariffs is to pick things like Chinese drywall with arsenic it.

[1rudeboy]

Hot-rolled steel is not a “higher quality import from Europe. “