Replies to post #21693 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[DewDiligence]

Trying to resurrect generic steel manufacturing in the US is foolish.

CLF’s CEO, Laurenco Goncalves agrees with this, in part. He considers AKS the polar opposite of a generic steelmaker, but he supports tariffs to enable the existing commodity segment of the US steelmaking industry (CLF’s external customers for iron-ore pellets) to survive.

[semi_infinite]

IMO Navarro and Lighthizer seems to have done well for Trump in getting some trade and IP agreements with China. Navarro also wrote a memo back in January about the threat of Covid-19.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/navarro-warning-trump-coronavirus.html