{"id":1127,"date":"2002-08-06T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"update-on-the-steel-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/update-on-the-steel-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"Update On The Steel Tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still a major pain for the steel drum industry and the US economy, the Steel Tariff imposed by President Bush continues to cause problems for industry and end users. Being the third largest users of steel in the US, the steel drum industry has approached Congress with requests for exemptions and termination of the Tariff. With all requests being denied, it appears that the Tariff is here to stay, and that end users can look for rising costs to continue. While this has probably been the easiest price increase to justify to customers, it has certainly been the largest percentage increase we have ever seen, and there is still no relief in sight. Looking to 2003, we hope to see prices level, but there are no guarantees as the steel industry continues to retool and adjust to the vast wave of new business. In this market, our first priority is to have the raw materials on hand so that our customers are protected from product shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still a major pain for the steel drum industry and the US economy, the Steel Tariff imposed by President Bush continues to cause problems for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}