as president trump said without steel and alum numb industries in the country we don t have a country. so the challenge we face from a pal s policy point of view. how do you do that? we have 20 countries flooding our market with steel. 15 flooding our markets with alum num aluminum. tariffs were the answer. tariffs are not aimed at a country. strategic rival, china, ally, friend, canada. they re a defensive measure in order to bring about a strong steel and aluminum industry. we have that, chris. important to note since tariffs were announced. we have had, 150 million investment in hawesville, kentucky, century aluminum. new plants opening. in granite city illinois by u.s. steel on friday. we had a $1.5 billion rolling milling, aluminum rolling mill in appalachia, a great achievement by, by this
with aloom number. so tariffs are the answer. they re not aimed at any individual country, whether it is a strategic rival like china or an ally and frien l canada. they re a defensive mre in order to aut stand. and we have that, chris. it is important to note since those tariffs were announced, we ve had $150 billion announcement by century aluminum. we ve had new plants open by u.s. steel on friday. we had a $1.5 billion rolling mill, aluminum rolling mill, in appalachian. just a great achievement by this administration. let s test it a little bit. the idea of, we ll make our own and that will make up for the imbalance. you know that s a minority theory. imbalance. whatever short coming there is, whatever supply we lose, we ll make up for it with more