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Trump to impose 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports (www.ft.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/economy@lemmy.world
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https://archive.is/2025.02.09-220319/https://www.ft.com/content/54810a2c-1db7-488b-ab38-7d00c2dcf016

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How bout a 100% tarrif on spray tan

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is literally fucking up the plans for my r&d company in a serious way.

[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Should've picked any other country mate.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I hear you, but as an example, Japan is one of the only few that make one of the particular alloys we need.

Do I want to support my local community? Yes.

Does my local community have the answers to everything, generally? No.

And we're a niche company, no way us steel is going to go through the expense of building the process for us.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 months ago

In other news, the price of US made steel and aluminium increased by 24.9%.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you need a new car, appliance or whatever, buy it now.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

used market about to blow up over the next 4 years

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“I don’t believe you”

—Ron Burgundy

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

[–] gimmelemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Cause that's how you spur the creation of domestic factories, don't ya know