It's not a good thing on either side... No one wants tarriffs. But if I tax you when you buy Pennsylvania peaches from me, I can expect you to tax me back when I buy Hawaiian shirts from you. Tarriffs never end well... Attacking free trade has never benefited the US or it's workers.
I agree that buying American is great, but for many things it's just not realistic. There is a reason we outsource to other countries, it's cheap. You think that iphone is expensive now with a 12 year old Chinese kid building it, wait until you're paying an entitled American adult that demands $15/hr and benefits. It's kind of all ironic to me really.. it's like attacking capitalism in the name of capitalism.
On Thursdays, we eat sushi! Next Thursday I'll be out of town... I was thinking about you today, I'm going to need to pick your brain on poke bowls. I think I'll be able to find some top notch tuna, so I'll trade in sushi for a big bowl of broken sushi with extra goodies.
The electronic crap is a pain in the ass because a lot of it has to be disposed of properly... At least what we deal with.
We could get a lot more for our scrap if we separated everything but it's not really cost effective. We don't actually give it away, we just don't profit from it... Which is sad when you've taken +10,000lbs of scrap to the place in a single day. Copper is something we use frequently, and that's much more money, but it's still peanuts in the grand scheme of things. The overall revenue from scrap isn't a number that even sticks out to me on the balance sheet...