Because, you know, you had the food industry over there saying this is going to raise the price of a tin can by 50 cents, which is ridiculous. It's totally ridiculous. And guess what? Since they closed down that tin plate steel manufacturing facility, China upped the price on tin plate steel [after the U.S. facility closed]. Imagine that when you got the corner on the market. Right. And so, I mean, obviously this was just. They manipulate things constantly. The idea was to weaken our industrial base, weaken us as a country. (47:56)
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