川普加了25%关税之后的结果是:下游制造商只好提高成本。他想要帮钢铁业,结果害了汽车业,机械业。Federal Reserve的估计是:这关税有可能增加了1,000个钢铁业的就业,然后减少了其他制造业75,000名的就业。这叫:捡了芝麻,丢了西瓜。
(见: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/steel-tariffs-hurt-manufacturers-downstream-data-shows )("...increased input costs due to the steel and aluminum tariffs are associated with 0.6 percent fewer jobs in the manufacturing sector than would have been the case without the tariffs. We compute that this amounts to about 75,000 fewer jobs in manufacturing attributable to the March 2018 tariffs ...")
还有啦:
美国进口钢铁最多的是从加拿大,再来是巴西,墨西哥...等。中国连前十名都排不到:
见: https://legacy.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/imports-us.pdf
所谓"中国宝钢首钢等巨兽不计成本的规模经营和有意识地击垮美国钢铁行业"云云是版主在寻大家的开心么?