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vmilner04/03/20251 replyview on HN

It’s hard to see tariffs on steel (say) not raising wider domestic prices. Any domestic industry using steel (car making, house building etc) presumably now has to pay more for its steel which feeds through to consumer prices. You might increase the number of steel worker jobs but at a hidden wider cost to the wider US economy.


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SpaceNoodled04/03/2025

US homes tend to be built with lumber, not steel.

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