Checked the price of steel pipe lately?

mtfallsmikey

While installing the circs and piping my wood boiler, I found a few old Grinnell black malleble fittings in my stash that said "USA"...should have saved them for a museum!

Steve Ebels_3

Very scary!

In the last month black pipe has jumped over 40%. My brother in the hardware store told me that a tariff on Chinese made pipe just went into effect causing the drastic increase.

Maine/Baltimore Doug_4

Was the tariff

designed to promote US manufactured steel pipe out of plants that don't exist? Or maybe a new source of revenue now that we have few alternatives for pipe?

Where will you get pipe? I imagine there must be other increases in cost coming.

Steve Ebels_3

Yah know Doug......

It was something the government did so............who knows what kind of logic was behind it. The Feds know they/we, as a country, are in very deep guano financially speaking. I'm looking for all sorts of "creative revenue enhancement" programs and machinations.

Maine/Baltimore Doug_4

I found this

http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/184230774.html