Source: CP staff Former Portland Cement Association Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Market Intelligence Ed Sullivan remains a principal information source for cement, concrete and construction stakeholders through “The Sullivan Report,” a new Substack portal offering. “I plan to continue to assess the U.S. economy and how that relates to the construction and cement industries,” he tells Concrete…
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Contractors paint dire jobs, cost consequences in steel, aluminum tariff aftermath
Sources: Associated General Contractors of America, Washington, D.C.; CP staff
Responding to President Donald Trump’s March 8 order applying respective 25 percent and 10 percent tariffs to steel and aluminum imports from countries outside the NAFTA region, AGC CEO Stephen Sandherr noted: “These tariffs will cause significant harm to the nation’s construction industry, put tens of thousands of high-paying construction jobs at risk, undermine the President’s proposed infrastructure initiative and potentially dampen demand for new construction.
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