Word: steels
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...After Obama imposed tariffs in September of up to 35% on Chinese-made tires to protect U.S. jobs due to a surge in Chinese imports, China retaliated in October with new levies on nylon imports. This month, the U.S. slapped duties of up to 99% on some Chinese-made steel pipes. China announced soon after that it was looking into imports of U.S.-made cars from manufacturers that received government support. The trend has economists worried about a trade war. But U.S. officials dismiss that notion, arguing that the affected goods comprise a small part of the massive trade relationship...
...biggest construction projects: a network of high-speed train lines - covering 10,000 miles (16,000 km) nationwide - that China is building. As far as the eye could see, there sat vast concrete support struts, one after another, exactly 246 ft. (75 m) apart. Each was full of steel cables and weighed about 800 tons. "We used to build stuff too," Maloney mused, unprompted. "But now it's NIMBY [not in my backyard] every time you try to do something. Here," he joked, "it's more like IMBY. There's stuff happening here, everywhere and always." (See pictures...
...Modern masks have come a long way from Plante's first design. In the 1970s, goalies started to replace the eyeholes with steel cages, improving a goalie's ability to see the puck (a major criticism of Plante's original design) and extending the fiberglass to protect the top of the head and neck. Today's goalie sports a mask that includes protection for the throat and is fashioned often from carbon fiber or Kevlar for added protection against flying pucks. The design has even crossed sports: in the past decade many baseball catchers have begun sporting hockey-style masks...
...done nothing to rebalance China's economy between consumer and producer. In fact it's done the opposite: late last month, the National Development and Reform Commission, an important policymaking body, conceded that it must start implementing rules aimed at reducing overcapacity in several key industries, including steel and petrochemicals...
...same people who bend steel to make cars can bend steel to make wind turbines. The same people who program machines to build car parts can program machines to build parts for solar panels. Wind turbines have brake systems, drive trains--the same kinds of things you have in a car, only really big. So there's no doubt that we can translate the expertise...