Generally slave labor from communist countries is cheaper than steel from democracies.
BTW after getting the Berlin wall to fall by starving the communist enslavers out, you endorse free trade with China correct?
You were successful in defeating the Russian Bear with an economic strategy, but you are less stringent on the same strategy with a different set of unelected oligarchs. Just so we are clear.
Cheaper yes, of poor quality, also yes. The American steel industry priced themselves right outa the market! They produced a better product but it was so expensive, it was cheaper to add 2x the foreign steel into engineering than it was to buy from the American manufacts. i know, I been buildin' from the ground up since the 70's!
Actually, since the unions and the gubmint policies of the DemonRat controlled congress, who BTW has had the majority of control for the last 60 years, ****ed us, I think we pretty much have China by the balls.
Who else is gonna buy all their shit? Other than that, **** no! We should have never let them breath the air of world trade until they assassinated their communist masters!
I think maybe ya oughta ask your bud BJ about most of that, although Tricky Dicky opened the door, Jimmah made it far worse, but at least he wasn't supplying the technology to help them pole vault into the success that has transpired in the last 20 years. But hey, ya just gotta have those campaign bucks, right?
Never mind lettin' buy themselves into this hemisphere and purchase our debt! That's a whole other crime committed by every pres and congress since Reagan lookin' to bail their budgets out!