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Or, you know, you retards could try some data to make sure you know what the hell you're talking about. Read this for starters. The US imports most from Canada, not China. Then, learn about steel grades. Meeting demand requires sourcing, so buying steel of a certain type and quality from China or Canada isn't anything like a security risk. In fact, US steel production is so extensive it is 4th worldwide.

That's 41,000 per day now. If that requirement hits, it may be thousands and thousands less. Since there is no security benefit, I can only assume the goal is to prevent people from traveling to US so much. I am sure the tourist industry / travel industry would love that.

Read between the lines. If you look here, you'll see that only 7,432,515 B1/B2 (tourist and business) visas were issued. That's a little over 20k per day. A large percentage of these will be business visitors.

The total number of arrivals for 2017 is 54,973,043. That's a little over 150k per day. So your visa-based tourists and business travelers together make up ~13% of yearly travelers to the U.S.

Remember that a lot of countries are exempt from the visa requirements through the Visa Waiver Program.

Steel and aluminum are of national security importance, and the US is just about out of the business, though fortunately, we get most of ours from Canada.

According to the US Department of Commerce, .pdf, US net steel imports are about 1/3 of US consumption.

See article 1, section, clause 5 of the US Constitution - "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." Thus there are zero export taxes in the US. It's not like it's hard to find the export tax rates for countries. And it's not hard to learn about foreign free trade zones in the US. But hey, I know it's just facts and reality - don't let that stop you from your little, delusional rant! Education is a terrible thing when you have an agenda to push...

Well said and extrapolated! Particularly your quip "Education is a terrible thing when you have an agenda to push" If you do not mind I will use it elsewhere. It cuts to the core of why we need to continue the fight against all political entities that are based upon male domination like the Talaban that exist only by violent brutal intolerance for the benefit of the so called "leaders". The same is true with the petrochemical industrial complex which is controlling far to great a portion of the world's economy. They need to be exposed for what they, are a conglomerate group who really could care less about human life as long as they control the planet.

Who are the they? I can look in the mirror and at times see one myself as I drive my car willy-nilly everywhere. I keenly remember seeing a hippy Volkswagen van once in about 96' with a tattered bumper sticker long after the defeat of Bush after the first and the pseudo religious oil conflict with Sadam over Kuwait (first gulf war). The bumper sticker boldly stated: (NO BLOOD FOR OIL!). The funny part was that it was sitting there running and dripping oil from the engine all over the pavement where it was parked. The oil was going directly down into a storm sewer catchment that lead directly to a fish bearing creek. At the time I was doing environmental stream survey work for logging cut blocks. To cut a long story short I went home and looked in the mirror and realized that poor ol' Al Gore who was recently berated in the press for his anti pollution stance was on to something and there was no chance in hell of him every gaining power. We are all subject to the whim of our ignorance and education can help heal this inner wound. But the greatest failing of the student is always an inability to listen, thus we ignore Rachel Carson and other luminaries like Al Gore at our own intellectual peril!

See article 1, section, clause 5 of the US Constitution - "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." Thus there are zero export taxes in the US. It's not like it's hard to find the export tax rates for countries. And it's not hard to learn about foreign free trade zones in the US. But hey, I know it's just facts and reality - don't let that stop you from your little, delusional rant! Education is a terrible thing when you have an agenda to push...

Your theory about the markets represents considerable original research, I don't think it is useful to just assert those ideas as facts or as changes that have happened in the markets. You're obviously aware of specific pieces of equipment that used to have a capability gap that no longer does; you mentioned CNC mills, for example. But just waving your hands and asserting the US no longer has manufacturing sector equipment exports that are difficult to replace, well that just shows ignorance of US exports in that sector. It isn't magic, so it doesn't apply to random things like CNC mills, which are somewhat trivial.

If you ever visit the US you'll find out how funny the trains comment is; we don't really use many trains. It would be somewhat predictable that modes of transport we don't use don't have much investment. It has nothing to do with complacency. I doubt the existing horse-drawn carriages are state-of-the-art, either. Maybe you can sell the sleigh industry on upgrades.

http://trade.gov/mas/manufactu...
US has 14% of the global machinery equipment market. Export leaders included: construction machinery, engine equipment, turbines and turbine generator sets, and agricultural equipment.

It is basically Putin's way of saying: "Look, I am in control of how to get to space."

He's not. I'm pretty sure Chinese, Indians, Americans and Europeans are going to continue to go to space with or without Putin.

US simply does not understand the Russians. Sanctions cannot possibly work against them.

US is not working against 'Russians'. It's just containing a power-hungry dictatorial imperialistic regime. Attacking the wealth of a regime is always a good way to reduce its ability to conquer neighboring nations.

They always one up whatever move you do

Do you seriously think they didn't consider all the options Putin has? Or maybe at least the obvious ones like cutting his exports and imports? It's just a typical reactionary BS

This time it is gonna be played to the utter economic destruction of one of the two nuclear super powers or an all out nuclear war.

Yeah, imagine US losing their 28th business partner by volume of trade . Economic destruction my @ss.

It looked like such a smart move by the US state department to take over the Ukrainian government, too bad they didn't understand that the move would inevitably start a war. Now we will all pay the price.

Typical dictatorship thinking - if I lose control over a government it must be because some other country took it. There's no way people would just elect their own representatives...

Foreign visitors to U.S. hit record in 2011

That report talked up a whopping 4% increase in tourism during 2011 as compared to 2010.

It doesn't mention the 7% drop in 2009, give any other historical context, or even mention that in many countries annual population growth exceeds 4%. If you only tell part of the story, you can draw whatever conclusion you like.

this would kill the dollar, which would halt all export to the US, including food, try waging war without food...

The GP makes an interesting comment (not that I agree) but dude, the US feeds the world. I am all on board with banging the US trade deficit, but we export food. Do you know what drives the economy of all the mid-western US states? Hint: it's not high finance or blockbuster movie releases....

Quoth the US Dept of Commerce:
The U.S. trade surplus in foods, feeds, and beverages rose $16.8 billion to reach $19.4 billion in 2008, up from a surplus of $2.6 billion in 2007.

...which I admit, does seem pathetically low. Also, I freely admit that the US has a protectionist agriculture industry (you can trivially corroborate by searching for WTO complaints about the US & sugar). However, food is the least of our worries. We can feed everyone in our country by ourselves, as well as a significant part of the rest of the world. We have no need to import food.

You own link says otherwise; it states that output PER WORKER reached an all-time high, not US manufacturing output.

You may want to look at the second graph.

US manufacturing output reached an all-time high of ~$3.1 trillion in 2008.

It is also true that as of 2008, US manufacturing productivity per employee was also at a high point up to that date.

The recent recession has dropped US manufacturing output to ~$2.7 trillion in 2009, returning it to levels of 1998. We'll have to see how 2010 does. As of Sept. 2010, US manufacturing output is running 6% higher than Sept. 2009, suggesting that 2010 might end up around $2.8 trillion, the level of manufacturing output in 2000.