We are having big issues with suppliers not wanting to issue pricing on anything with steel in it or Wire due to the prices of Copper and Steel.
My brother works for a Large Mine here in Ontario and he said that the Chinese are buying up "slurry" (unrefined ore) from small mines {and scrap steel}that do not have their own smelters.
They are stock piling the stuff and it's driving up the prices here.
Walrus is correct, if somebody does not start watching this stuff we are all in be trouble, both sides of the border.
On a side note: I read somewhere (October or November 2003) that "FORD" is moving 1 billion dollars worth of automotive part making over to China!!! (Humm, I wonder how many jobs that will cost the USA, Canada and Mexico?)
