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Who is Paying the Steel Tariff?

Posted by M. C. on December 13, 2018

The Masochist’s Tax

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/12/who-is-paying-steel-tariff.html

Some are claiming that the Chinese are absorbing the price of the steel tariff imposed by President Trump.

But the data show otherwise.

You have to watch Paul Krugman carefully because he can be a Lefty sneak with distorted data but he presents truth here:

Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

A note for Tariff Man, who thinks foreigners pay tariffs. Here are steel prices in the US and world export markets as the Trump tariff went into effect, from http://steelbenchmarker.com/files/history.pdf  Kind of looks as if Americans paid the tariff, doesn’t it?

RW 

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Chung Kuo | International Man

Posted by M. C. on February 24, 2018

http://www.internationalman.com/articles/chung-kuo
The Chinese absolutely resent the U.S. government parading its aircraft carriers off the China coast as if it owned the place. The U.S. government is not showing strength, it’s displaying arrogance and stupidity by antagonizing a sleeping dragon. And the thought of American politicians—which is to say an assortment of insular lawyers, eggheaded wannabe social engineers, and refugees from Arkansas trailer parks—negotiating with people who’ve been through what the Chinese have, is just scary.

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