That's what I was thinking. If China wants to subsidize American manufacturing by selling us cheap aluminum, what's the problem? This is is bad if you're part of the tiny American aluminum mining and extraction business, but it's probably pretty fantastic if you're part of the huge and important industries making anything with aluminum, like cars and airplanes.
Why do we want to protect primary industries when historically there's been so much more money in secondary industries?
Of course, one could argue that those of us in the US are in fact the British Empire, the narrative slightly complicated by that civil war period of 1776-1812 of course.
Why do we want to protect primary industries when historically there's been so much more money in secondary industries?