Trading partners around the world express anger including Mexico which buys more steel out of the US than it sends the other way

The US has doubled tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports to 50%, pressing ahead in the face of criticism from key trading partners with a measure that Donald Trump says is intended to revive the American industry.

About a quarter of all steel used in the US is imported and data shows the increased levies will hit the closest US trading partners – Canada and Mexico – especially hard. They rank first and third respectively in steel shipment volumes to the US.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    just like his 1st term, and just like he said " you voted on what i campaigned on, deal with it"

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Can’t revive the damn industry by waving a magic wand. Like steel mills and mines are just going to materialize because of some tariffs?

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Steel is actually a good thing to tariff. China has been dumping a shit ton of steel on the global market and it hurts manufacturers in many other countries. In most countries such tariffs would come forth from antidumping rulings and they are a common and quite fair safeguard. Then it mostly changes towards a minimum price. (Like what European countries are doing regarding cheap EVs from China)

    To tariff all steel instead of just the cheap steel is amazingly stupid tough. But that’s the amazing mind of Trump TM.

    • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yup, I figure I have maybe 2 weeks at this price before we get laid off. Also, ironically it’d be cheaper if they built it in Mexico because it wouldn’t cross the border as much.

    • glitch1985@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Maybe you should look towards eating something other than steel or aluminum. (but seriously sorry you’re having to deal with this)

  • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The Guardian fired their journalists and replaced them with AI. I’d like to raise this point and see if we could be more selective with News? I think That the co-opting of our news media is just about controlling the Overton window and I would hope we could find and support independent media like Al Jazeera. Who have 15.8m subscribers on youtube and whose videos went from getting 10s of millions of views to majority under 10k in the space of a year.

      • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Their propaganda pamphlet(aka prompt)

        There’s been a push the last few days of the narrative that Al Jazeera is “independent media” that is being “suppressed”. And they keep bringing up the youtube numbers as some big gotcha.

        • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          What do you reckon the organization looks like and what is the size?

          What follows is totally unsubstantiated and just my gut.

          I feel like there is A/B testing of phrases and factoids that is then used on the wider web. Also wonder if a good chunk of it is training as some of the writing is painfully naive in regards to western life and world politics in general. I also wonder how many follower parrots there are that are just propagandized westerners.

          • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            The VAST majority isn’t structured or done from actual documentation or directly sent out from an organization. It’s sumbliminally dispersed through different media. And people unknowingly, but willingly, spread it thinking they thought of it themselves.