First, I'm not sure why what I wrote somehow ended up looking like it was
quoted from a previous mail with the > symbols--must be a quirk of shifting
fonts on this Japanese OS I'm using.
Next:
And of course you can't contemplate US strategic trade policy without
getting the more obviously venal
>From a free trade perspective, the moves make no sense at all (neither the
tariffs by the US or the European retaliation).
>From a strategic trade perspective, though, they make perfectly good sense.
The US trade policy strategizers want higher steel prices, even if they have
to be artificially
