From Coal Mines to Trade Wars, uncertainty Still Rules the Game
March 18, 2025 | Read Online
The M&E Dispatch // 054
From Coal Mines to Trade Wars, uncertainty Still Rules the Game
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Hello Everyone,
It’s been a ride this week at the U15 Championship in Nanaimo. We took a hit in our first game but rallied back through the next two, landing ourselves a spot in the semi-finals this morning. We hit the ice at 11 AM PST, so this one newsletter is a quick one, gotta grab some breakfast here.
I love these early morning hotel lobby chats and I’m forever grateful for the journey that my son’s love for hockey has taken me around the country on. This morning in the lobby one of the coaches from another team was posted up early, just like me, waiting for the schedule to drop. I noticed his hat—turns out, they’re in steel fabrication. And as all great Canadian chats do these days, it veered straight into “What the heck is he doing today?!”.
Last year this a chat that started this way would have been about a standout player, or a ref, or crazy coach… but now, the “he” is none other than the one-man market mover himself: Donald Trump.
Steel guys are watching the tariff situation like a stock ticker, and what struck me was the growing gap in how jobs are being quoted.
Clients want fixed prices and enough time to think it over.
Fabricators want materials + time quotes with a short window of validity.
More and more, they're hearing:
"We’re going to hold off until we know more about these tariffs."
He’s confident that once we get a handle on how exactly these tariffs will affect the market and we move to a stable-ish trade agreement working document we’ll see a backlog of jobs being ordered, and fast! Everyone will be in a race to get their contract signed and deposit paid before the prices can change.
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- Trump’s working document I’m sure…
Funny enough, there’s a certain irony in having this conversation in Nanaimo—a town quite literally built on the boom-and-bust cycles of resource pricing. Coal mining put this place on the map, and back in the 1800s, deals were made, broken, and rewritten based on forces way beyond a miner’s control. Fast forward to today, and the materials may have changed, but the uncertainty remains.
One social media post, one policy shift, and an entire industry is left guessing. If this is something you’re seeing (or feeling), hit reply—I’d love to hear about it.
// The Dirt
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// The Hustle
Verde Agritech Seeks Investor Relations Analyst
[Promoted] Verde Agritech is hiring an Investor Relations Analyst for a home office position, offering an opportunity to engage with stakeholders and financial markets.
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Phew, made it in time. Now, off to the rink.
Go Bucks! Go!
- Lee
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