{"id":1130,"date":"2002-09-10T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-10T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"steel-tarrifs-stick-for-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/steel-tarrifs-stick-for-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Tarrifs Stick For Drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I reported on the current actions by members of the steel drum community to approach the Bush Administration seeking an exemption from the tariffs imposed on imported steel. Spokesperson for the drum industry has been Les Trilla of Trilla Steel Drum in Chicago. &quot;Since the imposition of the spring tariffs, steel at his company has been 54 percent more expensive, and this translates into an increase of about 20 percent in the cost of manufacturing each drum. The Bush administration&lsquo;s steel protections, therefore, have amounted to the equivalent of an anti-employment, business-destroying move against the steel drum industry.&quot; The drum industry response has been to increase prices nationwide. At SKOLNIK, we buy our steel 6&ndash;12 months ahead of when we will actually use it. We do this to secure the flow of incoming raw material and to establish protected prices. Due to long time vender relationships and large volume purchasing, we have been able to delay many of our product increases. Therefore, as the end of the year approaches, our price adjustments should be fully implemented. As for the view for 2003&hellip;..the steel market will hopefully stabilize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I reported on the current actions by members of the steel drum community to approach the Bush Administration seeking an exemption from the &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-1130","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\/1130","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=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skolnik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}