Posted on 03/30/2025 4:36:25 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
Lionel Racing, NASCAR’s die-cast collectible car licensee, is implementing a surcharge to its customers related to the U.S.’s recently implemented tariffs on China, an example of the policy trickling down to impact the sports industry. ...
On Thursday, the company sent out notes to both retail customers as well as its wholesale business partners about implementing a new tariff surcharge as a result of the new 20% tariffs on all imports from China, which is the toy industry’s largest manufacturing hub in the world.
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cutting off their nose to spite their face
And there is the issue. All their shit comes from China. Boohoo
These “Toys” cost $80.00 to $130.00 dollars now. I wont be buying any of them.
There has been a recent trend to having diecast toys made in Indonesia... but in factories set up and run by the - wait for it - Chinese. "Outsourcing the outsourcing," so to speak.
“These ‘Toys’ cost $80.00 to $130.00 dollars now.”
They could be made in the USA for far less than that.
It’s time to look for a factory site in the USA.
So they are jacking up the prices on pre-tariff goods they have in warehouses and containers in the US?
If it's cheaper to make them there than here, the tariffs aren't high enough.
the ones I foolishly gave away to the kids to “play with” years ago were made in the USA. when they were turned into a box of tiny car parts we threw them out. they weren’t collectables then. never ever bought the junk made somewhere else.
Maggots took over the toy company of my youth. Now they’re a far-left political crapshoot.
Way back in 1976 I went to a Singer Sewing Machine plant in Pickens, South Carolina to babysit a telephone system manufactured by my employer. That factory was making power hand tools for Sears. The comptroller of Singer took me on a factory tour. I spotted a router I owned, and said so to my guide. He asked me how much I paid for it. When I told him I paid $72.00 for it, he exclaimed "Wow! 1000% markup! We sell that to Sears for $7.28". This was long before the massive outsourcing to China.
Around 1996 I was working for a company that made credit card scanners for use with cash registers. Our company had to remove filter capacitors and use poor quality parts in those devices in order to have some profit with each sale. We were supplying them to Walmart, where they dictated their purchase price without regard to the actual manufacturing cost to my company. We made about $1.20 on each unit. We dropped that product, let a French company get screwed instead.
The retail stores earn well above usurious profit levels, every one of them.
Make them Chinese kids pay top dollar for US made toys. They’re the best!
Exactly the point. Lionel, those who have ears let them hear.
The world keeps spinning round & round. What goes up must
come down. Change is ever occurring and adaption keeps its
part of the cycle. In a few years into the future humans will
be taking pills/shots for daily nutrition. Living in outer space
circling the globe will be the normal procedure.
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