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Posted: 10/27/2010 1:39:51 PM EDT
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Been that way for years, 5 years ago out largest export to them was used cardboard , They recycle it , fill it with crap and sell it to us again
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Posted: 10/27/2010 1:45:24 PM EDT
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Hmm, seems like we've been down this road before. Wasn't Japan buying most of our scrap prior to WWII?
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Posted: 10/27/2010 1:52:57 PM EDT
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They were buying all the scrap steel that wasn't nailed down before the recession, I suppose they're still at it.
There were a couple incidents of recycled cardboard coming back from China in amusing ways- I recall a chess board that had apparently been made of Barely Legal covers. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 1:57:09 PM EDT
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I thought our #1 export to China was empty shipping containers
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Posted: 10/27/2010 1:59:57 PM EDT
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I saw a show where entire towns have E-junk (electronic junk) everywhere cause the entire town is stripping the stuff down to smaller chunks to sell as scrap for money.
Piles and piles of the stuff. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:07:20 PM EDT
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Fk'um.
Maybe some day (I really doubt it) Americans will get their heads out of their asses and quit buying that Chicom shit. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:10:50 PM EDT
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Quoted: Fk'um. Maybe some day (I really doubt it) Americans will get their heads out of their asses and quit buying that Chicom shit. I hope you're right, but I also doubt it. We like our cheap crap. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:12:17 PM EDT
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I fail to see how this is a problem.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:13:45 PM EDT
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wow
scrap metal is "trash" |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:39:56 PM EDT
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Quoted: I fail to see how this is a problem. This. The Chinese PAY us to take our garbage/scrap/recyclables, and this is somehow a problem?  |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:42:14 PM EDT
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Quoted:
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I fail to see how this is a problem. This. The Chinese PAY us to take our garbage/scrap/recyclables, and this is somehow a problem?
Exactly. We're giving them trash and we get computers. I'm struggling to see why this is anything but a win for us. 
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:42:38 PM EDT
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Considering some of the stuff I've seen folks throw away? Probably raises thier standard of living, quite a bit.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:43:06 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I fail to see how this is a problem. This. The Chinese PAY us to take our garbage/scrap/recyclables, and this is somehow a problem? Only when they are buying as much copper as they can causing the price to go nuts  |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 3:46:08 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I fail to see how this is a problem. This. The Chinese PAY us to take our garbage/scrap/recyclables, and this is somehow a problem? Exactly. We're giving them trash and we get computers. I'm struggling to see why this is anything but a win for us. Would you rather have our trash staying here because no one wants to buy it? If I have a pile of rusting steel sitting around does it do me and my neighborhood more good to sell it to the Chinese, or take it to the dump? ETA: Yes, I know there are domestic consumers of scrap steel. But if they offer me $50/ton, and the Chinese offer me $150/ton, which price do you think I will take? And don't tell me none of you would take the higher price, because in real life I can guarantee 99% of you would. ETA2: And this is not a hypothetical situation, either. Earlier this year I sold some scrap steel in SLC, most of which I bet went to Nucor Steel's plant in Plymouth, Utah. I got $75/ton. When I was up at my cabin in Northern Idaho I took a load of scrap to a dealer at the port of Lewiston –– which loads ships bound for China –– and I got $160/ton. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 5:20:23 PM EDT
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Quoted: Hmm, seems like we've been down this road before. Wasn't Japan buying most of our scrap prior to WWII? Yep. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 5:22:25 PM EDT
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Ontario's #1 export to Michigan is also trash.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 6:01:08 PM EDT
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When inflation arises, and the dollar crashes, the Chinese-owned US bonds will be trash.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 6:08:43 PM EDT
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I thought our #1 export to China was empty shipping containers They may not have much useful in them, but they're apparently not empty. 
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