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Defense Contractors Seeking Chapter 98 Relief

Chapter 98 permits duty-free imports if the government has deemed the product “emergency war material”

F-35's Foreign Components

The jet fighter has a host of foreign components, making it more vulnerable to tariffs than other U.S.-made weapons. Here's a selection of them.


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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Less than I thought made from scratch in the USA, rather than simply assembled from bought-in components, then... That does surprise me.

If if the bulk of the structure were to be made in the USA, the builders would still need import the aluminium-alloys which are an aeroplane's primary material, so needing the same relief.

Not long ago I looked up the USA's main metals resources*, and learnt that the country stil has some iron and copper ores, and also some bauxite but that is used for other purposes, no longer refined to extract the aluminium.


I see the wings are made in Italy by Leonardo. That company bought the helicopter manufacturer Westlands, based in South-West England, but still builds the aircraft there.

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*Iron, copper and aluminium are the three primary metallic elements for virtually everything, alone or together, directly or indirectly.