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America's factory boom now a bust as China cuts off graphite sales, likely to push tariff repeals

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The United States has seen an epic factory boom, from early 2021 through 2022, which tripled construction spending for manufacturing facilities. Most of the...

America's factory boom now a bust as China cuts off graphite sales, likely to push tariff repeals

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I had no idea that graphite was all being imported, wild

Industrial development and planning is actually really hard to drive from the top down, let alone catching up with people who are already ahead.
- Indeed, it's not a problem US can solve easily.
This smells of bullshit. Typical corporate misdirectional bullshit.
- do elaborate
  
  I find it hard to believe there is no source of crystalized carbon outside of China.

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