Originally Posted by dynastoned

bro i worked in the steel biz for years and my dad has been the president at several steel fab shops. chinese steel is the biggest piece of shit on the planet. our steel providers used to try and slip in a few beams and tubes and shit like that here and there because it was cheap. they did it to make a few extra bucks and hope we didn't catch it or whatever i guess. but it was fucking dangerous. occasionally id find a beam or some tube steel that you could literally see through the web of the beam or the wall of a stick of tube. aka there were fucking holes in the steel. it got so bad that everyone in the biz now requires mill certs for every single piece of steel that runs through their fab shops. so they can verify whether or not the steel has come from a shitty country like china and they will send it back immediately.

a lot of new buildings now require US steel only for this reason. it's gotten to the point that even the fasteners like TC bolts and studs and shit like that need mill certs to verify they don't come from china or anywhere near there.

whats really scary to me is that the new suspension bridge in San Francisco that connects to Oakland was mostly shipped in from china. think about that for a second with the facts i've posted above. especially in a earthquake prone area right on the ocean and how it spans over salt water it will most definitely have corrosion problems.