On 06/28/18, Kees van Eeten said the following...
 
 Kv> Hello mark!
 Kv> 
 Kv> 28 Jun 18 12:27, you wrote to me:
 Kv> 
 Kv>  KE>> Why, isn't the US steel and aluminum industry going to jump in and
 Kv>  KE>> supply equal quality goods within a fortnight for the same price?
 Kv> 
 Kv>  ml> the same price as what? the cheap chinese steel? why do you think it 
 Kv>  ml> being imported instead of being purchased domesticaly?
 Kv> 
 Kv>  Either the cheap Chinese steel or the special steel for the car
 Kv> industry that is imported from my country. Those are the materials that
 Kv> are being charged with extra import taxes. Whith that extra tax you
 Kv> local indutry should be able to compete. Either way the end product gets
 Kv> more expensive.
 Kv> 
 Kv>  My point is that it is not possible for your industry to just turn a nob
 Kv>  and start producing. To continue production of produtcs that are base
 Kv> on this imported steel, you still have to import it.

President Trump's tariffs on imported steel aren't the first time the
industry has gotten protection from the U.S. Government. 

Iron forges, the forerunners of the modern steel industry, tariffs in force
then to and are nothing new, foreign competition has tried to infiltrate the 
industry even back then with foreign made horseshoes, nails and rifle barrels.

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