Re: silca and Tariffs

On 4/26/2025 12:41 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On 26 Apr 2025 09:14:12 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
 

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Josh of Silca does a good job of explaining how the tariffs are effecting
US companies certainly small ones, as ever it’s a moving target so may well
change.
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Roger Merriman

 Many countries have tariffs on products from the USA. I see no reason
why the USA shouldn't have tariffs on their products. Maybe it will
bring manufacturing back, maybe not. The USA used to be a
manufacturing powerhouse and the bureaucratic jackasses let it slip
away. I don't know if Trump's plans can save the country, but it was
definatly going to hell with the same old, same old plans. At least
he's trying something new.
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C'est bon
Soloman

I am in complete agreement on the importance and benefit of removing disparate tariffs.
I can't agree that it will make a significant difference in industrial production. With our Byzantine regulations, bans, permits, reviews and so on, plus unions, and a combination of apathy and lack of skills in younger generations ('don't know. don't care') there's no obvious path to refining our huge stores of rare earths, making steel from our excellent iron ore and coking coal, building ships once more or a gazillion other lost industrial projects.
Reciprocal tariffs are good, and moral, but the effect will be about the same as increasing the oceans' volume by pissing in them.
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