re: Government picking winners and losers on tariffs--steel gets the exemptions they want

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You understand that the steel tariffs are on Americans that buy steel from almost every country right?? That China is like the 11th largest supplier to the US? It is even on Canada still.

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Yeah, we all understand that. This is about using the protection of a tariff to restart an industry that is essential to the most important function of the U.S. government. That's exactly why tariffs are in place on more than just Chinese steel. The fact that there are inputs from China that remain un-tariffed is likely due to the regulatory burdens of producing the chemicals here. Instead we can allow the Chinese to poison their own population as we figure out a way to ramp up production of the chemicals without destroying our health and environment.

We all know you aren't ignorant, you're just a globalist and are too short sighted to account for future national security problems. China is a massive national security issue for a multitude of reasons. As far a steel, they've been playing the long game for quite some time now. Their percentage of world steel production in 2000 was 15%. When Xi Jinping took over in 2007 it was 36% and is now at roughly 50%+. Their intent is clear, they want to consolidate as much steel production in China as possible and control markets. As that consolidation grows steel in other countries is obviously bankrupted and driven out.

Since 2000, the only places on the globe where steel production has consistently grown are China and countries that are within what they consider their sphere of influence. Western countries' production has massively declined in proportion to global output since 2000.