{"id":20215,"date":"2018-06-25T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20215"},"modified":"2018-06-25T07:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:07:03","slug":"you-win-some-you-lose-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/25\/you-win-some-you-lose-some\/","title":{"rendered":"You Win Some, You Lose Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories from Friday&#8217;s <em>Springfield Business Journal<\/em>&#8216;s Today in Business newsletter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbj.net\/stories\/trump-tariffs-blamed-for-potential-closure-of-semo-employer,59313?\" target=\"_new\">Trump tariffs blamed for potential closure of SEMO employer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George Skarich of Mid Continent Nail Corp. says President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff on steel imports could put the company out of business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cheap nail imports from China and other countries don&#8217;t face this tariff and are increasing every day. We need our wire to be excluded from this tariff or we will have to increase the layoffs we&#8217;ve already begun,&#8221; Skarich says.<\/p>\n<p>The Poplar Bluff-based 500-employee operation is said to be one of the last major U.S. nail manufacturers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbj.net\/stories\/steel-company-jsw-usa-to-add-1000-new-jobs,59309?\" target=\"_new\">Steel company JSW USA to add 1,000 new jobs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JSW Steel USA plans to invest $1 billion in facilities in Mingo Junction, Ohio, and Baytown, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to be hiring over 1,000 people,&#8221; JSW President and CEO John Hritz told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Hritz credited President Donald Trump&#8217;s steel tariffs for allowing the company to supply more steel for defense and infrastructure purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve not studied Common Core math, but this looks like a net positive for employment numbers.<\/p>\n<p>I note, though, that the headlines blame Trump for the job losses but credit the company with job creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories from Friday&#8217;s Springfield Business Journal&#8216;s Today in Business newsletter: Trump tariffs blamed for potential closure of SEMO employer: George Skarich of Mid Continent Nail Corp. says President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff on steel imports could put the company out of business. &#8220;Cheap nail imports from China and other countries don&#8217;t face this tariff and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20217,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions\/20217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}