Biden to propose tariffs on Chinese steel

No I’m a bad boy.

 

Unfortunately some of what I own is Chinese. I buy otherwise when I can if there’s something comparable. Will even pay more.

 

I was kidding. It’s nearly impossible though.

 

You may be kidding but you are right too.

 

Wasn’t there a documentary on folks that tried to go a year without any purchases from China? Didn’t end well. We don’t make shat. If you don’t make shat you ain’t shat.
Interestingly, that has been changing a bit.

 

horrible, horrible take.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. Hayek

 

We traded jobs for stock dividends.

 

Add another bad Chinese product to the list: counterfeit titanium.

Some recently manufactured Boeing and Airbus jets have components made from titanium that was sold using fake documentation verifying the material’s authenticity, according to a supplier for the plane makers, raising concerns about the structural integrity of those airliners.

The issue appears to date to 2019 when a Turkish material supplier, Turkish Aerospace Industries, purchased a batch of titanium from a supplier in China, according to the people familiar with the issue. The Turkish company then sold that titanium to several companies that make aircraft parts, and those parts made their way to Spirit, which used them in Boeing and Airbus planes.

F.A.A. Investigating How Counterfeit Titanium Got Into Boeing and Airbus Jets

 

Maybe the bad actors are also the people trying to save money/costs by buying shitty materials?

 

Maybe. You get what you pay for, which is why companies should beware of buying cheaper alternatives from China.

 

This also comes to mind.
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