tariffs been in place for about a year now what does the u.s. gain from. well i mean the basic idea was that big ben china was flooding the market for example with cheap stealed sometimes diverting those some chipman through other countries to avoid tariffs and the united states was hoping to protect the domestic steel an element industry trick has only worked so far i mean 1st of all if you look at the stocks of the big u.s. steel and aluminum producers of they have been quite depressed actually in the past 12 months and then also when you look at the u.s. industry costs have increased the because of those some higher tariffs on steel and so probably what the u.s. tried to achieve what washington tried to achieve did not really work out that well of course a lot of talk about a still glut in the coming years now yes stay with us because there was