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President Donald Trump will announce Monday new 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum entering the United States, including from Canada and Mexico.
Canada and Mexico are two of the U.S.’s biggest steel trading partners, and Canada is the biggest supplier of aluminum metal into the country.
UPI reports Trump told reporters Sunday aboard Air Force One of his plan by declaring, “Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25 percent tariff. Aluminum, too.” More
Good. It’s about damn time. Now turn the rust belt back into the steel belt, and return manufacturing to the U.S.
So, the ChiCom tactic of shipping their aluminum to Mexico duty free and then having the Mexicans ship it to the U.S. duty free isn’t going to work any more?
NEENER-NEENER-NEENER! NEENER-NEENER-NEENER!
Suck on it!
Justine Turdette was busy Backstabbing Trump in Europe AGAIN this weekend with Macron and a few others.
Thus, we wake up Monday to a rightful Cock Slapping.
AGAIN
We definitely need to smelt our own Aluminum. Then acid wash the leftover “mud” and process it for the gallium that China no longer sells us… When you offshore stuff like this, you also lose the subtle side benefits, which in the case of gallium is a strategic mineral required for semiconductor manufacturing.
Similarly with steel, you lose the insight into the quality control process. Most of us can’t tell the difference between 316 and 316L stainless steel. But when you’re importing it from other countries, you need to verify the alloy is correct and they didn’t just add/drop the “L”. Against a US supplier, you have better legal recourse, etc…
KR
“We definitely need to smelt our own Aluminum.”
We do. Just not enough of it. American smelters concentrate on the Aerospace grades, 7075’s and 2024’s. 6061 t6 is the vanilla of aluminum and what’s use for most commercial applications. Our mill don’t bother with to much of that because there’s a shit ton of DFAR product available.
One of the big problems is our mills seem to not want anything to do with recycling aluminum chips (shavings to normal peeps). It’s a lot faster and cheaper process than starting with ore. Literally all the aluminum chips end up in China. That’s got to change.
China has also cornered the market in yellow metals. (Brass, Copper, etc) For the same reason. American mills don’t want to recycle. WTF?
@Brad — I’ve always kind of liked the word swarf. Swarf. Swarf. Swarf. Sounds cool, yes? What’s the difference, if any, between chips, shavings, swarf anyway? Something to do with metal removed via abrasion as distinct from cutting/turning?
I also like the word dross but that’s stuff floating on molten metal during smelting and has nothing to do with machining.
Uncle Al
You got about a half an hour LOL. Swarf cutting is using the side of the cutter to remove material. The way the God of machining intended the tool to be used. But some idiot name the tool “end mills” and ever since they keep using the end of tool 1/3 the diameter deep to mill with. I’m the self proclaimed King of swarf machining. So the difference in Chips, shavings, swarf chips are actually the shape of the chip. And then you have your turned chips from a lathe. Long stringy unless you program in a chip breaking cycle.
You’d probably enjoy some of the high speed parabolic cutter paths we can now generate with modern cam systems.
Here’s a pretty good example of SWARF cutting and the video game we all play now right off the solid mode.
https://youtu.be/Q9ETM6FeyLE
tacconite is only EV food
Thanks for the details, @Brad. One of the reasons I like the word swarf is that the stuff itself tends to be pretty. From a distance.
Oops. Only the word word was supposed to be in italics.
Dang fingers.
taconite is PEOPLE! solly, it iron to burn