{"id":316,"date":"2002-03-11T05:41:35","date_gmt":"2002-03-11T12:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/cold-facts-about-steel\/"},"modified":"2002-03-11T05:41:35","modified_gmt":"2002-03-11T12:41:35","slug":"cold-facts-about-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/11\/cold-facts-about-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold facts about steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; Mickey Kantor, Clinton&#8217;s trade rep, approves of the president&#8217;s tariffs on steel, for the reasons I gave below. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/03\/08\/opinion\/08KANT.html\">Tariffs May Temper a Glut of Steel<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThirty-one American steel companies have gone bankrupt since 1997, and the steel industry in many nations is in jeopardy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that none of those bashing the president on this issue have estimated its dollar impact on, say, a Ford Taurus. The only estimates I&#8217;ve heard put it around zero dollars to the consumer, on the theory that foreign steel producers will lower their prices and eat it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Mickey Kantor, Clinton&#8217;s trade rep, approves of the president&#8217;s tariffs on steel, for the reasons I gave below. (Tariffs May Temper a Glut of Steel) Thirty-one American steel companies have gone bankrupt since 1997, and the steel industry in many nations is in jeopardy. It&#8217;s interesting that none of those bashing the president on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/11\/cold-facts-about-steel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold facts about steel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-56","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}