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Christian ✝, conservative $, engineer ⚙, machine design 🔩, computer tech💻, muscle cars🏎 & aviation✈ Past 🇺🇦 resident & loving husband to a 🇷🇺 wife❤





America Taxes Itself, Again! The United States smelts roughly 30 percent less aluminium than it uses. Washington’s solution was a 50 percent tariff on imports, on the theory that new smelters would simply appear. They did not. One costs about five billion dollars and takes five years, and an idled Kentucky plant has already been converted into a data centre. The bill is arriving on schedule. The Midwest premium, around 600 dollars a tonne before the tariffs, has passed 2,500. American manufacturers now pay close to 6,000 dollars a tonne while everyone else pays 3,500. Detroit will hand that on to whoever buys the next pickup. Canada, meanwhile, cannot sell south and has redirected record volumes across the Atlantic instead. European buyers get the metal at a discount to what Americans pay. Americans get the shortage, the invoice, and the patriotic satisfaction of having done it entirely to themselves. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1


































