I could give a lot of examples and still not show the full impact. We have been hit very hard by the tariffs on Al--we use Al in terms of tons not pounds. Much of it comes from Columbia but even the Al sourced in the US has "suffered" the same tariff fate, since very little virgin Al is produced in the US. I am in the midst of a major expansion and almost without exception the machinery is imported---and the crap shoot on all of this is that many of these tariffs are fluid on a day to day bases.
This is no way to run a business---much less a country.
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