Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: silca and Tariffs Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:06:12 -0500 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:06:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="62d81cbb709682d4a8e3d9821f4f466c"; logging-data="3166077"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18gSN60Yb7bZ0bmgoyF1zjW" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:j1/3UDCNCQW3heg85LCC5vMbGCk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2690 On 4/26/2025 12:41 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote: > On 26 Apr 2025 09:14:12 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> Josh of Silca does a good job of explaining how the tariffs are effecting >> US companies certainly small ones, as ever it’s a moving target so may well >> change. >> >> Roger Merriman > > Many countries have tariffs on products from the USA. I see no reason > why the USA shouldn't have tariffs on their products. Maybe it will > bring manufacturing back, maybe not. The USA used to be a > manufacturing powerhouse and the bureaucratic jackasses let it slip > away. I don't know if Trump's plans can save the country, but it was > definatly going to hell with the same old, same old plans. At least > he's trying something new. > > -- > C'est bon > Soloman I am in complete agreement on the importance and benefit of removing disparate tariffs. I can't agree that it will make a significant difference in industrial production. With our Byzantine regulations, bans, permits, reviews and so on, plus unions, and a combination of apathy and lack of skills in younger generations ('don't know. don't care') there's no obvious path to refining our huge stores of rare earths, making steel from our excellent iron ore and coking coal, building ships once more or a gazillion other lost industrial projects. Reciprocal tariffs are good, and moral, but the effect will be about the same as increasing the oceans' volume by pissing in them. -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971