Okay first you do not have a right to buy subsidixed steel imports that is inflicting harm on the American economy
We don't. We buy DOMESTIC STEEL.
fact is becuase your company made a profit from people inflicting harm on America does nothing to justify the imports of steel.
What????? I don't follow. WE BUY DOMESTIC STEEL. In addition, where's the harm to America? Myself, and a couple hundred others are employed by this company in the US, we buy US goods, and pay taxes.
I have no objections to tariffs on imported products/componets using steel and have ardently argued for tariffs on Chinese products.
Fine, but those tariffs don't exist, and therefore the 30% tariff on imported steel, by itself, hurts AMERICAN producers of steel products, by forcing our costs higher when compared with foreign producers of similar products.
If you bought domestic steel at the market price then the tariffs did not hurt you. If you buying domestic steel at a price depressed by imports then you were getting an advantage from teh harm others inflicted on the US economy. If theprice went up becuase of tariffs then you are merely complaining about the market. I have no problem with your purchasing domestic steel and I have no problem with a free market in the USA for American products if the free market in the uSA has prices lower than the market would normally set becuase of imports then we need tariffs and one should not presume there is harm in them.
I agree it is good your company employs Americans. However your initial post implied some harm from teh steel tariffs I submit the only harm was they did not also cobver components made of steel and finished goods made of steel.