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Three missiles fired by US jets taking part in attacks in Iraq landed over the border in southwestern Iran, Iran's official IRNA news agency said.
Three missiles fired by US jets taking part in attacks in Iraq landed over the border in southwestern Iran, Iran's official IRNA news agency said on Saturday.
Quoting an unnamed military commander, IRNA also said that US and British military jets violated the Islamic Republic's airspace several times on Friday and Saturday during operations against targets in southern Iraq.
"In two cases, rockets from American planes hit (south-western Iran)," the commander said. The rockets fell in the area of Maniuhi, close to the border with Iraq. The commander gave no further details and there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Another rocket hit an oil refinery depot on Friday evening in the city of Abadan, about 50 km (30 miles) east of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, government officials and witnesses told Reuters. Two guards at the depot were injured in the blast.
In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Phillip Reeker said the United States had told Iran it took the report of misfired missiles landing in Iranian territory seriously and would investigate.
"Today, we are sending a second message (to Tehran) through the Swiss confirming that we are looking into it," Reeker added. "We take seriously Iranian sovereignty and territorial integrity."
Earlier, a Pentagon official said the US military was investigating indications that a ship-launched American cruise missile went off course and perhaps landed in Iran.
"A lot of these things have been used since the air war started. While they are precisely guided, nothing is perfect," said the official, who asked not to be identified.
In London, British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said he could not confirm "suggestions that any of our missiles have gone astray into Iran".
"Those suggestions, obviously, are being investigated and we are continuing our contacts with the government there," he said.
Tehran has not publicly accused US-led forces of deliberately targeting Iran, suggesting that it considers the missiles were strays.
Torn by its enmity for both Iraq and the United States, Iran has condemned the US-led military attack on its western neighbour but vowed to remain neutral in the conflict.
"Our border guards are on full alert," the military commander in the border town of Shalamcheh, northwest of Abadan, told IRNA.
Iranian officials had previously said it was not clear where the rocket, which hit the Abadan depot had come from.
But IRNA, quoting Abadan Governor Jamal Alami, also blamed US forces. "Last night an American plane fired a rocket... and it hit one of the depots," he said.
Oil industry sources, which declined to be named, said operations at Abadan's refinery were unaffected.
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday warned the ambassadors of Britain and Switzerland - which represents US interests in Iran - to respect its airspace.
But a local political analyst in Tehran, who asked not to be named, said it was unlikely that the rockets had originated from British or US forces.
"If you look at the trajectory of the military assault being carried out in Iraq by the British and Americans, these bombs would have been way off course, which just doesn't seem likely," he said.
He said another possibility was that the rockets came from Iraqi forces trying to shoot down US and British planes.
Iran has little sympathy for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who ordered the use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
But Tehran also has poor relations with Washington, which severed diplomatic ties with Iran shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution and last year included it in the "axis of evil" list along with Iraq and North Korea.
"X Marks the Spot" doesn't look like any exhibition the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County has mounted in the nearly seven years it has operated a gallery at its headquarters in Lake Worth.
It's all about graffiti and mural art. Big, vividly colored, exuberantly drawn murals are painted directly on the gallery walls. They're mixed with smaller paintings, photographs and even sculpture. Most are signed with pseudonyms, a reminder of graffiti's roots as an illegal offense.
"It's my favorite show that I've ever done in my whole life," said Nichole Hickey, manager of artist services. "I've been wanting to do a mural and graffiti art show for a long time to show people who don't understand this work that these are actually professional artists," she said.
The show is attracting an atypical crowd, said Dave Lawrence, the council's president and chief executive officer, during the opening in November. "Look how young and diverse this audience is. There are so many people we've never seen in this building before."
In addition to the murals, Hickey asked the artists to make saleable work for the show.
These include Brian Cattelle’s portraits of homeless men, Atomik’s signature orange paintings, PhD’s homages to Bill Watterson’s "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip and a painting embedded into CHNK’s mural.
The show, which features 16 artists who live or work in Palm Beach County, aims to demonstrate that although graffiti art originated as clandestine defacing of neglected walls, train cars and other surfaces, it's much more than that now.
In addition to gracing commercial galleries, it’s been embraced by cities such as Lake Worth and West Palm Beach as a means of beautifying their streets and enhancing their individuality.
Graffiti-inspired art is a lucrative business for Glayson LeRoy, who helped Hickey organize the exhibition. He’s a partner with John Griffith and VenomLMA in Galera Collective, a Delray Beach-based business that specializes in murals, art shows and art events.
Things have changed since then. The artist recently completed a commission for the Beyond Walls mural festival in Lynn.
His mural curves along the wall of the staircase leading to the council’s second floor.
Viewers might not realize it at first, but the piece is a distorted version of the artist’s name. “I’m strictly a letter guy,” he said.
He chose the staircase because “I wanted to be in a spot like it would be in the street -- a hard spot to paint, something a little edgy,” he said.
Grabster is a Boca Raton artist who grew up making graffiti art, rapping and break-dancing in New York during the 1980s.
References to video games, Memphis Group post-modern design, and Al Held, a hard-edged abstract painter he admires, pop up in works such as a mural he created for the east wall of the gallery.
It’s one of six lined up on the wall. When he arrived at the gallery to paint he discovered he had less space than he’d planned on.
“I had to reshape it, so I went up and into the third dimension,” he said. That’s how the assertive arrows made their way into the piece.
A professional artist for 10 years, he’s created works for 17 restaurants in Florida as well as Mathews Brewing Company in Lake Worth.
The spontaneity common to much of graffiti art permeates the show in other ways as well.
During the installation, Atomik gave another artist an off-the-cuff lesson in spray painting. The work he used to demonstrate the technique is in the show.
Social media provides company at 6am when you’ve been up all night with a crying baby, writes Andrea Mara.
Real Christmas trees, trips to see Santa, and snow – these are all much better in your head.
Imaginative gifts are all well and good but just help me out with the basics!
There’s a casual solidarity between parents of young children that can lift you up on the lonely days.
When my first child started school I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal. I was wrong.
Opinion: Why do people continue to do 'the hardest job in the world'?
Parenting can be very tough – and thankfully more people are being honest about that – but let’s not forget about the good stuff.
Opinion: Once, there were artists, entrepreneurs and everyone else on the sidelines. Then the internet came along.
The playing field has been levelled. Now, secret bakers can set up kitchen businesses, talented crafters can open Etsy shops, and technically gifted people can invent apps.
Opinion: One year on from the Prime Time childcare exposé – what have we learned?
I watched last year’s Prime Time documentary in tears, as did many parents around the country. Have the inspection and regulatory changes that followed been enough?
Female CEO are more likely to be fired, according to a new report. Let’s look at the possible reasons for this finding.
Column: Do you have Impostor Syndrome?
Do you ever suspect that you’re a fraud, and sooner or later your boss will say “I’ve just realised, you have no idea what you’re doing”? Then you might have Impostor Syndrom, writes Andrea Mara.
It looks like Conor McGregor might really get to challenge welterweight champion Robbie Lawler for his next fight after UFC 196 is concluded.
McGregor teased on Wednesday that the next logical step for him after facing Nate Diaz on Saturday night might be to skip the lightweight title all together and move right into a championship bout at 170 pounds.
While UFC president Dana White has scoffed at this idea with other fighters, he says if that’s what McGregor wants it’s going to be awfully hard to say no to the idea.
"I’m open to whatever he’s considering doing," White said at the UFC 196 pre-fight press conference. "I mean if he wants to fight at 170 and he wants to fight Robbie Lawler, Conor is tough to deny these days."
McGregor is already making an unprecedented move by winning the featherweight title and bumping up two weight divisions to face Diaz on Saturday night.
Now he could already be in line to challenge for the UFC welterweight title with a win and it certainly sounds like White is on board with making it happen.
"Nobody’s ever done this stuff," White said about McGregor. "145 pounds going to 170 and it’s one of these things when you talk about these guys, when the money’s in the bank and all these things are going on and they have all this opportunity, Conor really does step up and fight anybody, anywhere, any time.
"It’s impressive, it’s fun and this is what makes you love the fight business."
If McGregor beats Diaz, he could be matched up with Lawler at UFC 200 in July, which is expected to be the biggest card of the year if not one of the most talked about shows of all time.
McGregor headlining against Lawler could make it even bigger.
Are Trump’s tariffs impacting hurricane shutters?
Halfway through hurricane season, a tony Frenchman’s Creek home in Palm Beach Gardens finally got its $40,000 in aluminum hurricane shutters Wednesday — a hard-fought-for prize following a busy hurricane season and in the new age of tariffs.
Ordered in April, the nearly four-month wait is more than quadruple the norm as aluminum prices edge up and supply dwindles with more mills looking to avoid tariffs by buying American, said Andy Kobosko, Jr., owner of Guardian Storm Protection in suburban West Palm Beach.
Kobosko, whose company filled the Frenchman’s Creek order, said he’s recently reduced delays to four to six weeks by buying in bulk with his Fort Lauderdale-based distributor. A normal wait time for shutters before the tariffs was two to three weeks, Kobosko said.
"Things are starting to catch up, but it’s been a stressful three months," he said.
Since President Donald Trump’s March announcement of 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum, industries reliant on the metals have faced an uncertain future.
An overabundance in steel, partly because of tepid demand and increased production in China, has caused a collapse in steel prices. But aluminum is a different story with Kobosko scrambling to get the quantity he needs to fill orders.
The hurricane shutter industry, a niche market in storm-prone states, is a standout example of the possible early impacts of aluminum tariffs. While a hike in metal prices can more easily disappear in the price of a car with its thousands of moving parts, there’s no disguising a cost increase on a simple sheet of metal that’s 95 percent aluminum.
"The impacts haven’t really started to sink in yet I don’t think," said Peter A. Quinter, chairman of the Customs and International Trade Law Group, and an attorney with the Miami-based firm GrayRobinson. "The shutters are like the canary in the coal mine."
Prices on everything from beer to Bentleys could increase said Quinter, who is representing a Palm Beach County aquarium company hoping to get an exemption from tariffs on fish tank air filters imported from China.
On Monday, Trump announced another 10 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that will increase to 25 percent at the end of the year.
"If you drink beer, if you drive a car, if you buy clothes, it will affect everyone," Quinter said about the tariffs. "Trade wars are a lose-lose scenario."
For Megan Stojack, who rents a home in West Palm Beach, it means fretting through hurricane season without shutters after she was told in early May by several companies she couldn’t get them until after the season ends because of the impact of tariffs.
"One company referred me to American made hurricane-grade impact windows and doors, which is incredibly expensive and not my decision to make as a tenant," she said.
Not everyone believes tariffs are the reason for the shutter delays.
Glen Landy, a salesman for Jupiter Aluminum, said an increase in demand after hurricanes Matthew and Irma are the real reason behind the delays.
While prices have increased, he said its been no more than the traditional annual hike made before every hurricane season.
"We’ve raised our prices, but it has nothing to do with tariffs," said Landy, who noted that a lack of installers has also caused a delay. "Our business is up 300 percent and when you write all this business and only have so many people to do it, it can push things back."
Landy also said his company has had no problem getting aluminum.
"The wait time is because business is 300 times better," he said.
?Kobosko, whose company manufactures the shutters rather than install pre-made, said much of his aluminum was coming from a mill that purchases from Russia. Now he’s getting supply from multiple mills and in larger containers.
For current contracts, he’s eating the price increases of between 15 and 25 percent. But new customers likely will pay more.
"It’s not just the price that’s gone up 25 percent in the past six months, the availability is down and we were only getting a fraction of our orders," Kobosko said. "We don’t always know what we’re getting because it’s hard to keep up with demand."
Florida’s direct aluminum and steel imports make up about 1.6 percent of its total imports, according to a March analysis by the non-profit Brookings Institution.
That’s compared to states such as Missouri, Louisiana, Connecticut and Maryland where aluminum and steel make up more than 5 percent of their total imports.
RELATED: When do I put up my hurricane shutters?
The Aluminum Association, a national trade association, advocates that market-based countries, such as Canada and the European Union, be exempt from tariffs and not subject to quotas.
"We do produce aluminum in the U.S. and we would like to produce more of it," said Matt Meenan, senior director of public affairs for the association. "Trade action should focus on the source of the problem, and that is illegally subsidized Chinese aluminum overcapacity."
How the tariffs will affect spending long term in Florida is unknown, but Michael Snipes, an economics instructor at the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, said he believes the state’s unique tourism-heavy economy will cushion some of the impacts.
"As long as people keep visiting Disney World, going to Fort Lauderdale for spring break and we have old people moving to Naples, we’ll be OK," he said. "But places like Iowa or Minnesota — the real world — they are going to be affected because their economy is a lot more normal."
Will shutter prices level off?
Snipes said the idea of imposing tariffs is to make foreign products less attractive to consumers and push buying from American companies so that, for example, the steel and aluminum industries in the U.S. are bolstered.

Calculate 2007 Mitsubishi Raider Monthly Payment Which Cars You Can Afford?

Three missiles fired by US jets taking part in attacks in Iraq landed over the border in southwestern Iran, Iran's official IRNA news agency said.

Three missiles fired by US jets taking part in attacks in Iraq landed over the border in southwestern Iran, Iran's official IRNA news agency said on Saturday.

Quoting an unnamed military commander, IRNA also said that US and British military jets violated the Islamic Republic's airspace several times on Friday and Saturday during operations against targets in southern Iraq.

"In two cases, rockets from American planes hit (south-western Iran)," the commander said. The rockets fell in the area of Maniuhi, close to the border with Iraq. The commander gave no further details and there were no reports of casualties or damage.

Another rocket hit an oil refinery depot on Friday evening in the city of Abadan, about 50 km (30 miles) east of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, government officials and witnesses told Reuters. Two guards at the depot were injured in the blast.

In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Phillip Reeker said the United States had told Iran it took the report of misfired missiles landing in Iranian territory seriously and would investigate.

"Today, we are sending a second message (to Tehran) through the Swiss confirming that we are looking into it," Reeker added. "We take seriously Iranian sovereignty and territorial integrity."

Earlier, a Pentagon official said the US military was investigating indications that a ship-launched American cruise missile went off course and perhaps landed in Iran.

"A lot of these things have been used since the air war started. While they are precisely guided, nothing is perfect," said the official, who asked not to be identified.

In London, British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said he could not confirm "suggestions that any of our missiles have gone astray into Iran".

"Those suggestions, obviously, are being investigated and we are continuing our contacts with the government there," he said.

Tehran has not publicly accused US-led forces of deliberately targeting Iran, suggesting that it considers the missiles were strays.

Torn by its enmity for both Iraq and the United States, Iran has condemned the US-led military attack on its western neighbour but vowed to remain neutral in the conflict.

"Our border guards are on full alert," the military commander in the border town of Shalamcheh, northwest of Abadan, told IRNA.

Iranian officials had previously said it was not clear where the rocket, which hit the Abadan depot had come from.

But IRNA, quoting Abadan Governor Jamal Alami, also blamed US forces. "Last night an American plane fired a rocket... and it hit one of the depots," he said.

Oil industry sources, which declined to be named, said operations at Abadan's refinery were unaffected.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday warned the ambassadors of Britain and Switzerland - which represents US interests in Iran - to respect its airspace.

But a local political analyst in Tehran, who asked not to be named, said it was unlikely that the rockets had originated from British or US forces.

"If you look at the trajectory of the military assault being carried out in Iraq by the British and Americans, these bombs would have been way off course, which just doesn't seem likely," he said.

He said another possibility was that the rockets came from Iraqi forces trying to shoot down US and British planes.

Iran has little sympathy for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who ordered the use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

But Tehran also has poor relations with Washington, which severed diplomatic ties with Iran shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution and last year included it in the "axis of evil" list along with Iraq and North Korea.

"X Marks the Spot" doesn't look like any exhibition the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County has mounted in the nearly seven years it has operated a gallery at its headquarters in Lake Worth.

It's all about graffiti and mural art. Big, vividly colored, exuberantly drawn murals are painted directly on the gallery walls. They're mixed with smaller paintings, photographs and even sculpture. Most are signed with pseudonyms, a reminder of graffiti's roots as an illegal offense.

"It's my favorite show that I've ever done in my whole life," said Nichole Hickey, manager of artist services. "I've been wanting to do a mural and graffiti art show for a long time to show people who don't understand this work that these are actually professional artists," she said.

The show is attracting an atypical crowd, said Dave Lawrence, the council's president and chief executive officer, during the opening in November. "Look how young and diverse this audience is. There are so many people we've never seen in this building before."

In addition to the murals, Hickey asked the artists to make saleable work for the show.

These include Brian Cattelle’s portraits of homeless men, Atomik’s signature orange paintings, PhD’s homages to Bill Watterson’s "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip and a painting embedded into CHNK’s mural.

The show, which features 16 artists who live or work in Palm Beach County, aims to demonstrate that although graffiti art originated as clandestine defacing of neglected walls, train cars and other surfaces, it's much more than that now.

In addition to gracing commercial galleries, it’s been embraced by cities such as Lake Worth and West Palm Beach as a means of beautifying their streets and enhancing their individuality.

Graffiti-inspired art is a lucrative business for Glayson LeRoy, who helped Hickey organize the exhibition. He’s a partner with John Griffith and VenomLMA in Galera Collective, a Delray Beach-based business that specializes in murals, art shows and art events.

Things have changed since then. The artist recently completed a commission for the Beyond Walls mural festival in Lynn.

His mural curves along the wall of the staircase leading to the council’s second floor.

Viewers might not realize it at first, but the piece is a distorted version of the artist’s name. “I’m strictly a letter guy,” he said.

He chose the staircase because “I wanted to be in a spot like it would be in the street -- a hard spot to paint, something a little edgy,” he said.

Grabster is a Boca Raton artist who grew up making graffiti art, rapping and break-dancing in New York during the 1980s.

References to video games, Memphis Group post-modern design, and Al Held, a hard-edged abstract painter he admires, pop up in works such as a mural he created for the east wall of the gallery.

It’s one of six lined up on the wall. When he arrived at the gallery to paint he discovered he had less space than he’d planned on.

“I had to reshape it, so I went up and into the third dimension,” he said. That’s how the assertive arrows made their way into the piece.

A professional artist for 10 years, he’s created works for 17 restaurants in Florida as well as Mathews Brewing Company in Lake Worth.

The spontaneity common to much of graffiti art permeates the show in other ways as well.

During the installation, Atomik gave another artist an off-the-cuff lesson in spray painting. The work he used to demonstrate the technique is in the show.

Social media provides company at 6am when you’ve been up all night with a crying baby, writes Andrea Mara.

Real Christmas trees, trips to see Santa, and snow – these are all much better in your head.

Imaginative gifts are all well and good but just help me out with the basics!

There’s a casual solidarity between parents of young children that can lift you up on the lonely days.

When my first child started school I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal. I was wrong.

Opinion: Why do people continue to do 'the hardest job in the world'?

Parenting can be very tough – and thankfully more people are being honest about that – but let’s not forget about the good stuff.

Opinion: Once, there were artists, entrepreneurs and everyone else on the sidelines. Then the internet came along.

The playing field has been levelled. Now, secret bakers can set up kitchen businesses, talented crafters can open Etsy shops, and technically gifted people can invent apps.

Opinion: One year on from the Prime Time childcare exposé – what have we learned?

I watched last year’s Prime Time documentary in tears, as did many parents around the country. Have the inspection and regulatory changes that followed been enough?

Female CEO are more likely to be fired, according to a new report. Let’s look at the possible reasons for this finding.

Column: Do you have Impostor Syndrome?

Do you ever suspect that you’re a fraud, and sooner or later your boss will say “I’ve just realised, you have no idea what you’re doing”? Then you might have Impostor Syndrom, writes Andrea Mara.

It looks like Conor McGregor might really get to challenge welterweight champion Robbie Lawler for his next fight after UFC 196 is concluded.

McGregor teased on Wednesday that the next logical step for him after facing Nate Diaz on Saturday night might be to skip the lightweight title all together and move right into a championship bout at 170 pounds.

While UFC president Dana White has scoffed at this idea with other fighters, he says if that’s what McGregor wants it’s going to be awfully hard to say no to the idea.

"I’m open to whatever he’s considering doing," White said at the UFC 196 pre-fight press conference. "I mean if he wants to fight at 170 and he wants to fight Robbie Lawler, Conor is tough to deny these days."

McGregor is already making an unprecedented move by winning the featherweight title and bumping up two weight divisions to face Diaz on Saturday night.

Now he could already be in line to challenge for the UFC welterweight title with a win and it certainly sounds like White is on board with making it happen.

"Nobody’s ever done this stuff," White said about McGregor. "145 pounds going to 170 and it’s one of these things when you talk about these guys, when the money’s in the bank and all these things are going on and they have all this opportunity, Conor really does step up and fight anybody, anywhere, any time.

"It’s impressive, it’s fun and this is what makes you love the fight business."

If McGregor beats Diaz, he could be matched up with Lawler at UFC 200 in July, which is expected to be the biggest card of the year if not one of the most talked about shows of all time.

McGregor headlining against Lawler could make it even bigger.

Are Trump’s tariffs impacting hurricane shutters?

Halfway through hurricane season, a tony Frenchman’s Creek home in Palm Beach Gardens finally got its $40,000 in aluminum hurricane shutters Wednesday — a hard-fought-for prize following a busy hurricane season and in the new age of tariffs.

Ordered in April, the nearly four-month wait is more than quadruple the norm as aluminum prices edge up and supply dwindles with more mills looking to avoid tariffs by buying American, said Andy Kobosko, Jr., owner of Guardian Storm Protection in suburban West Palm Beach.

Kobosko, whose company filled the Frenchman’s Creek order, said he’s recently reduced delays to four to six weeks by buying in bulk with his Fort Lauderdale-based distributor. A normal wait time for shutters before the tariffs was two to three weeks, Kobosko said.

"Things are starting to catch up, but it’s been a stressful three months," he said.

Since President Donald Trump’s March announcement of 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum, industries reliant on the metals have faced an uncertain future.

An overabundance in steel, partly because of tepid demand and increased production in China, has caused a collapse in steel prices. But aluminum is a different story with Kobosko scrambling to get the quantity he needs to fill orders.

The hurricane shutter industry, a niche market in storm-prone states, is a standout example of the possible early impacts of aluminum tariffs. While a hike in metal prices can more easily disappear in the price of a car with its thousands of moving parts, there’s no disguising a cost increase on a simple sheet of metal that’s 95 percent aluminum.

"The impacts haven’t really started to sink in yet I don’t think," said Peter A. Quinter, chairman of the Customs and International Trade Law Group, and an attorney with the Miami-based firm GrayRobinson. "The shutters are like the canary in the coal mine."

Prices on everything from beer to Bentleys could increase said Quinter, who is representing a Palm Beach County aquarium company hoping to get an exemption from tariffs on fish tank air filters imported from China.

On Monday, Trump announced another 10 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that will increase to 25 percent at the end of the year.

"If you drink beer, if you drive a car, if you buy clothes, it will affect everyone," Quinter said about the tariffs. "Trade wars are a lose-lose scenario."

For Megan Stojack, who rents a home in West Palm Beach, it means fretting through hurricane season without shutters after she was told in early May by several companies she couldn’t get them until after the season ends because of the impact of tariffs.

"One company referred me to American made hurricane-grade impact windows and doors, which is incredibly expensive and not my decision to make as a tenant," she said.

Not everyone believes tariffs are the reason for the shutter delays.

Glen Landy, a salesman for Jupiter Aluminum, said an increase in demand after hurricanes Matthew and Irma are the real reason behind the delays.

While prices have increased, he said its been no more than the traditional annual hike made before every hurricane season.

"We’ve raised our prices, but it has nothing to do with tariffs," said Landy, who noted that a lack of installers has also caused a delay. "Our business is up 300 percent and when you write all this business and only have so many people to do it, it can push things back."

Landy also said his company has had no problem getting aluminum.

"The wait time is because business is 300 times better," he said.

?Kobosko, whose company manufactures the shutters rather than install pre-made, said much of his aluminum was coming from a mill that purchases from Russia. Now he’s getting supply from multiple mills and in larger containers.

For current contracts, he’s eating the price increases of between 15 and 25 percent. But new customers likely will pay more.

"It’s not just the price that’s gone up 25 percent in the past six months, the availability is down and we were only getting a fraction of our orders," Kobosko said. "We don’t always know what we’re getting because it’s hard to keep up with demand."

Florida’s direct aluminum and steel imports make up about 1.6 percent of its total imports, according to a March analysis by the non-profit Brookings Institution.

That’s compared to states such as Missouri, Louisiana, Connecticut and Maryland where aluminum and steel make up more than 5 percent of their total imports.

RELATED: When do I put up my hurricane shutters?

The Aluminum Association, a national trade association, advocates that market-based countries, such as Canada and the European Union, be exempt from tariffs and not subject to quotas.

"We do produce aluminum in the U.S. and we would like to produce more of it," said Matt Meenan, senior director of public affairs for the association. "Trade action should focus on the source of the problem, and that is illegally subsidized Chinese aluminum overcapacity."

How the tariffs will affect spending long term in Florida is unknown, but Michael Snipes, an economics instructor at the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, said he believes the state’s unique tourism-heavy economy will cushion some of the impacts.

"As long as people keep visiting Disney World, going to Fort Lauderdale for spring break and we have old people moving to Naples, we’ll be OK," he said. "But places like Iowa or Minnesota — the real world — they are going to be affected because their economy is a lot more normal."

Will shutter prices level off?

Snipes said the idea of imposing tariffs is to make foreign products less attractive to consumers and push buying from American companies so that, for example, the steel and aluminum industries in the U.S. are bolstered.