that this is something that he can use. connell: if you were advising, would you advise him to have car vouch, there won t be car, types of steel or just across the board the way the president seems and i say seems because we haven t seen the policy yet seems as he proposes this week? the tariff when president obama applied certain steel tariffs against china. connell: right. they ran party through third-party nations and still came to the u.s. and it didn t have any meaningful impact, but using blanket tariff it gets around the problem but i do believe in the long run that we will exactly see that trade for negotiation that you ll see certain car to some nation in exchange for them giving us something to us.
fairly traded products. neil: what if that means you talk about different blends of steel that we don t make, that we can only get from abroad. if you slap that on those things, then there s no alternatives for americans. in the cases, for example, here in texas, we sell send steel pullets from corpus christi to austria. they re finely tuned and self-back to navasota texas who make the best tubing for the energy industry. they re all american jobs except for one action. we want to make sure these fairly traded products are not caught up in this blanket tariff. tariffs are taxes. lower is better. zero is the best. you want to make sure this is dope right. you mentioned the big tax cuts. you re leading a push to make those tax cuts permanent for individuals. they re presently only that way for corporations. in the middle of this comes