Odds of aluminum & steel tariffs passing?




Anyone, anyone? What happened when the US last introduced tariffs

Willis Hawley and Reed Smoot were reviled for a bill blamed for triggering the Great Depression. Will Trump follow their lead?

Dominic Rushe in New York @dominicru

Sun 29 Jan 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/smoot-hawley-tariffs-protectionism-donald-trump

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President Ronald Reagan: after Smoot and Hawley ‘we lived through a nightmare’. Photograph: Marcy Nighswander/Associated Press


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Willis Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot, co-sponsors of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
 
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zdreg said:
tariffs are typical of countries in financial difficulties. the US is insolvent because of excessive debt.
"insolvent" !!!! Have you lost your mind?
skip the hysterics. it is a more unbecoming behavior than your usual self.
 
In a Department of Defense memorelated to the proposed tariffs, Mattis said that while the Pentagon "concurs with the Department of Commerce's conclusion that imports of foreign steel and aluminum based on unfair trading practices impair the national security" the U.S. military requirements for steel and aluminum each only represent about 3 percent of U.S. production.

Mattis cited concerns about the "negative impact on our key allies" and said that therefore "targeted tariffs are more preferable than a global quota or global tariff."



Oh, so I guess we'll protect the country by pissing off allies

Don't let facts get in the way of failed populist policy.
 
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If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!

12:53 PM - Mar 3, 2018

Yes, set a tax on the factories in South Carolina and Tennessee, those Europeans are going to pay!
I wonder what's his opinion on why American brands have been declining in America itself?
 
Trade as a percentage of the global economy has been increasing over the years. I believe a change in the status quo of our trade agreements will cause dislocations even without retaliation. The reduced economic activity of the affected country will eventually affect us because they will buy less goods from another country, even if it is not us, and affect that country. In turn, that country will experience reduced economic activity and their demand can directly of indirectly affect the U.S.

An effective solution would be to develop capital projects in the U.S. that have a positive long term return on them. An off-the-cuff example might be creating massive artificial reefs on our coasts. This would greatly encourage growth in seafood production and could provide some shoreline protection against storm waves. The extraction, manufacturing, and transportation of the materials necessary would create jobs, increased economic activity, and high value food that is very exportable. There probably would be ecological benefits as well.

The key to trade and economic stability appears to be inceasing allocation of underutilized domestic resources in new positive returning capital projects rather than cutting back on U.S. market demand for foreign goods through legislation.
 
Martha Stewart was convicted for selling 230k worth of ImClone stock one day before the bad news. How is this different other than the amount here is bigger? Trump said himself that the biggest trades are insider's trades...
 
If the supply will be reduced due to taxes, prices for steel an aluminium the US will go up for all companies that use steel or aluminium. Export will become more expensive, read less competitive, and BOEING apparently seems to be the first victim in the US.

Canada, Europe and also China already told there will be an adequate reaction. Soon a free trade zone allover tge world but without the US? We will see who gets hurt and what the US economy will do.
Free trade is the key to prosperity.
Trump is the worst president the US ever had.
In German language the word Strumpf exists.

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Yes, set a tax on the factories in South Carolina and Tennessee, those Europeans are going to pay!
I wonder what's his opinion on why American brands have been declining in America itself?

Probably some idiotique argument, like always.
 
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