Will construction material prices increase? Customs madness?

Hello,

we want to build in the foreseeable future and are considering where building material prices will likely go in the next 12-24 months in view of America's tariff madness. How do you assess this??? Will China step in?

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We want to build in the near future and are considering where building material prices are likely to go in the next 12-24 months given America's tariff madness. How do you assess this??? Is China stepping in?

There are almost no building materials from the USA that we import. We can produce almost everything ourselves in Germany (or it comes from the EU). Germany is one of the largest cement producers in the EU, construction steel is also produced here, we have a strong wood industry (Russia is out, but compensated by other countries), Germany is particularly strong in insulated glazing, plastics and window profiles as well, etc.

At best, this affects individual preliminary products. The tariff madness will not have a significant impact on construction prices.

I would be more concerned about the effects of the "Berlin madness"...

OK, then it currently and probably in the future does not affect home builders in Germany or the EU regarding trade disputes...

Da würde ich mir mehr Gedanken machen über die Auswirkungen des "Berlin-Wahnsinns"...

What do you mean by that?

What do you mean by that?

Think about it. Now one trillion euros are coming into the market additionally(!). What will probably be needed for that? Raw materials (steel in particular), concrete, sand, gravel for road construction projects, etc. etc. Of course, a lot of manpower will also be needed. Do you really seriously believe that this will have no effect on prices? It's no coincidence that people already get excited at Heidelberger...

That would surprise me quite a bit if Germany were independent of world market prices and supply conditions. Is it off the table again? China has stopped exporting rare earths for a few days now. In a few weeks, this will at least affect the construction of heat pumps and heating systems in general, or anything that contains a microchip.

Apart from that, German companies also prefer to export their goods to the Far East or elsewhere if more is paid there, because China no longer wants to import anything from the USA.
In such a complex system, bluntly saying "No, we’ll just make everything ourselves anyway." Well, that fits the speaker.

I would also be interested in the alternative to massive investments in infrastructure. It’s no secret that my Generation Y now has to finance and fix everything that the Boomers and especially Gen X have let decay for decades.
When I started my vocational training in 2000, we should have at the latest started renovating or rebuilding bridges and roads from the 1960s... but nothing happened for another 25 years and now we have the expensive mess.