Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
My costs on aluminum and steel went up 30% 4 month's ago as I was told because of the tariffs,which was actually before they were even implemented,but it does not matter because you just pass the increases down to the end consumer.

Reading the other links provided in that link you see a storm brewing over corporation taxation in Canada and the fear of companies moving to the US.

In the I am screaming over tariffs link,it refers to companies that do 90% of their business in the US,so why would you have a company that bears the costs of sending 90% of your business over the border.

Would it not be more cost effective to locate where 90% of your business is located?

So if changing the corporate tax structure in the US to be more cost effective and implementing tariffs in Canada it would be more cost effective for those companies to locate or repatriate back to the US.

Look back at 2015 - 2016

Alcoa Inc said on Thursday it will permanently close its 269,000 tonne-per-year Warrick Operations smelter in Evansville, Indiana, by the end of first quarter, the latest in a string of U.S. smelter curtailments as producers struggle with tumbling prices.

Warrick's closure demonstrates the pain the industry is feeling from the sharp drop in aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange , which fell 18.6 percent in 2015 and are hovering near 6-1/2 year lows at $1,475 a tonne as demand wanes in top-consumer China due to slowing economic growth.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-alc...-prices-2016-1

So basically every other country in their own best interest enjoyed the liberal trade agreements and dumped steel and aluminum on our market to the point it was not feasible to continue production in this country,so our plants shut down,laid off workers and outsourced our economy and capabilities for production.

So dump cheap products on our market,eliminate our production capabilities,which in turn causes us to be controlled by a foreign nation subject to what ever price they demand because we will have no other choice.

It is the job of every countries leader in the world to look after the citizens best interests first and foremost,if people have a problem with that then it is their problem,nothing personal but if I have to pay a little bit more for something and the end result is more Americans are employed with a decent paying job that they can raise a family and better their life,then so be it.

Other presidents in the past have placed tariffs and the other countries survived,if that tariff spells the end of Canada and it will no longer exist because of them,then you really have bigger problems then a 10% tariff.

We have one of the largest markets in the world and yet everybody else wants to dictate to us on how we do business while not one of those countries would ever allow us to dictate to them on how to run their economy.
Richard, the cost effectiveness of the aluminum smelting process is vastly due to the energy levels needed to render it efficient and worthy as Canadian Visitor's linked article points out.

To bring US smelters to tje level of Canadian production, you would need hydro-electric, or nuclear or coal plants that don't impede demand on the consumer side that would up the cost of electricity to the average joe and joanne.

Sorry but here's how Alcoa is planning to make better use of energy with partner Rio Tinto in a new joint venture.

http://news.alcoa.com/press-release/...elting-process