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Trump’s claims were largely about bringing manufacturing jobs to America. Not reducing defense dependencies on vulnerable nations.


That was the stated goal for bringing steel production back to the USA at least, not sure about the imputed goals of other manufacturing jobs, but it should follow a similar line of thought, redundancy of critical-supply-chain parts.


No, that was a jobs play. Steel is well diversified, and we get our steel from a variety of largely trusted producers. The largest import source of steel was Canada. We also produce and export a lot of steel.

Steel is important but it’s not similar at all to something like Taiwan’s unique situation




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