Australia will not be granted an exemption from the Trump administration's 25 per cent tariffs on aluminium and steel imports, the White House says.
  • naught101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Maybe we should do a bit more of our own manufacturing anyway. Globalised supply chains are a fucking stupid idea, considering climate change.

    • King3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Who? The US? That ship has saled. The Us consumer doesn’t want to pay what it costs to manufacture here as evidence of all the cheap crap everywhere and discount stores. We can’t compete with global wages, nor should we. Plus we don’t have the factories anymore.

      • naught101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        35 minutes ago

        Australia.

        I would argue that global wages and conditions should be better, in which case Aus (and even more so the US) could more easily compete.

  • PointyReality@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    22 hours ago

    I hope our government uses this to find more stable trading partners. I wonder if Germany, China or Japan can take up some slack in relation to the aluminium.

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
      9·
      22 hours ago

      I would love to see more trade between Japan and Aus as well, especially if it reduces dependence on the US. I don’t know where most of the aluminum and steel here (Japan) comes from off the top of my head.