The MetalMiner Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Matt Marthinson, VP of Supply Chain at JB Poindexter & Co., Inc. lets listeners in on how an established transportation industry manufacturer with significant exposure to commodity risk views the tariff landscape, both now and into 2020. Listen in to the full conversation with Lisa Reisman on our current podcast series, "The Maker-to-User Trend in the Time of Tariffs."
Harry Moser leads the Reshoring Initiative, a non-profit with the goal of bringing as many jobs back to the US as possible. With record reshoring numbers posted in 2017, it would seem the Trump administration’s tariffs would help make 2018 and 2019 even better for the “maker-to-user” movement (characterized by local sourcing leading to a host of economic and environmental benefits, like farm-to-table) — or would it? "The trend in food is long term because people care about what they put in their bodies," Moser said, but "they don't care so much yet about what they put on their bodies.” Listen in to the full conversation.
Recently, Brock, the president and CEO of the Aluminum Association, got to see the newly commissioned U.S.S. Gabrielle Giffords, a warship named after the former Arizona congresswoman, and it left her with a sense of awe. “I just can't tell you what an amazing experience it was,” she said. To hear more on what a strong domestic aluminum sector has to do with national security, and how the aluminum sector views other hot trade issues of the moment and why, listen in to Lisa Reisman’s conversation with Heidi Brock.
It’s no secret that Barry Zekelman is one of the most vocal business leaders when it comes to trade policy. He made a life-changing choice back in college. He quit to take over the company his father had begun and turned it into the largest structural steel tube manufacturer in North America. But it wasn’t quick. Or easy. And it still isn't. Listen in to Lisa Reisman's conversation with Barry Zekelman, the CEO of Zekelman Industries, to find out why.
China has finally been deemed a non-market economy by the U.S. Commerce department. So what happens if the U.S. slaps China with even bigger tariffs after the Section 232 investigation? Will they retaliate? How? Get a sense of what's going on behind closed doors in D.C. by listening to Lisa Reisman's conversation with Tim Brightbill of Wiley Rein LLP.
MetalMiner Executive Editor Lisa Reisman interviews Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. In this conversation, Stumo outlines what he sees as the most crucial elements to consider in today’s trade environment, touching on everything from China to Alexander Hamilton.