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Checked the price of steel pipe lately?

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mtfallsmikey
mtfallsmikey Member Posts: 765
in THE MAIN WALL
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!

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  • Steve Ebels_3
    Steve Ebels_3 Member Posts: 1,291
    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
    Maine/Baltimore Doug_4 Member Posts: 9
    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
    Steve Ebels_3 Member Posts: 1,291
    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
    Maine/Baltimore Doug_4 Member Posts: 9
    I found this

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