Mid-Continent had been importing steel from Mexico that American workers would then turn into nails.
After the tariff, the company was forced to hike its prices and customers fled. Orders are a mere 30 per cent of what they were a year ago, said George Skarich, the vice president of sales. He suspects many customers are now buying Chinese nails.
Tariffs today are like going cold turkey and many will not make it because,
The reality of the situation is that they were using cheap Mexican steel in order to compete with cheaper Chinese steel in the race to the bottom so Americans can enjoy their always low prices while they complain about their ever decreasing wages, benefits and standard of living,
but in true form Americans have been brainwashed by corporate America so they can't see past their nose because they are their own worst enemy not realizing that those low prices they addicted to is because some foreigner pseudo slave out there is working under conditions they consider inhumane and unjust.
I'll tell you how you can compete on a level field, just get rid of your unions, labor laws, environmental laws, safety regulations as well as that pesky minimum wage while limiting welfare to the most basic necessities and you can compete again without Trump or tariffs,
because now you will be working under similar conditions to the foreign countries and illegals that you have no problem exploiting for you cheap goods and services.