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Trump’s tariffs stifling Montana metal manufacturers, farmers; boosting lumber mills

July 29, 2018 /

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"We’re just paying 20 percent more on the exact same product we got before," said Ron Neibauer, the plant manager for Alcom. "Unfortunately, that hurts everybody we do business with. If we see major price increases, we have a couple of choices. We can eat that part of the cost or pass it along to the consumer.

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