Could be. Now the ‘best and brightest’ bean counters are finally getting around to ‘discovering’ our supply line exposure...something we’ve been talking about here for over a month now.
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FREEPERS have been posting about this for way longer than that. And IIRC, POTUS over a year ago, was telling people to find other suppliers outside of China.
“FREEPERS have been posting about this for way longer than that. And IIRC, POTUS over a year ago, was telling people to find other suppliers outside of China.”
But it was hypothetical until the Chinese New Year...in that China was about as reliable a supplier as we could ask for (certainly more reliable than any union-infested American operation). But with the shutdown continuing past the Chinese New Year, then it became REAL - and that’s when a fair number of us sounded the alarm - simply because the ships in China were not being loaded anymore. In other words, there was a storm heading towards us, and all of the happy talk, look-back analyses, debunking of prior false alarms, everything - it meant nothing this time. The ships were not being loaded.
As to Trump saying that we need to disengage from China - that’s only part of the problem. So we go to Vietnam, or even Mexico or Canada, for example - and where do they get their source materials from, in many cases? One guess, and this is going to bite us on most of imports and even domestic production. This assessment should have been going on for years, or at least starting Jan 23 this year (when all hell broke loose in China), but only THIS WEEK are large companies (Proctor and Gramble, Coke, and now Microsoft) started to own up to their exposure (and still not a peep from drug companies...only more happy talk). They lost a critical month when they could have been lobbying Trump to declare an emergency and get some relief from regulations (and unions) so they could start up production here. It would have helped, at least somewhat.