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Posted on 10/17/2025 8:59:28 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
TIRUPPUR, India — If the tag on your T-shirt says “Made in India,” there’s a good chance it came from this southern industrial hub — long known as “Dollar City” for its dominance in the U.S. market.
Now, just seven weeks after the Trump administration imposed a 50 percent tariff on Indian exports, many of Tiruppur’s garment factories have ground to a halt. The slowdown has rippled through a vast network of hulking plants and small workshops, which employ more than 600,000 people. Thousands of fabric cutters, thread trimmers and sewing machine operators are suddenly out of work.
“Production has fallen by 25 percent across the board,” said G. Sampath, general secretary of the Center of Indian Trade Unions in Tiruppur. This city’s garment exports were valued at $3.7 billion last year, according to the Tiruppur Exporters’ Association, and a third of the apparel manufactured here is normally shipped to American retailers, including Walmart, Target and Sears.
Interviews with more than a dozen factory workers, labor contractors and business executives revealed how rapidly President Donald Trump’s trade war has upended lives and livelihoods across Tiruppur, a one-industry town where many workers have no written contracts or job security. Migrant laborers from rural villages have been sent home. Those still employed on the production lines said their hours and wages have been slashed. Exporters faced with frozen or canceled orders are focused on shipping out existing inventory, fearing new stock will go unsold; some said U.S. buyers have begun demanding discounts of up to 20 percent to offset the cost of tariffs.
Manohar Sahni, 44, spent the past two years here trimming loose threads from freshly stitched garments.
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Article by Supriya Kumar. Hmmm...
I thought this would be from an India media source. They really don’t care about Americans.
Thousands of fabric cutters, thread trimmers and sewing machine operators are suddenly out of work...
OUT OF WORK AMERICANS KNOW THE FEELING AFTER THEIR JOBS WENT TO INDIA, CHINA, KOREA...
“As U.S. tariffs have begun to bite, Modi has preached a message of economic self-reliance. “It is a great misfortune when dependency becomes a habit,” he told the country in his independence day address in August. “To build a developed India, we will neither stop nor bow down.””
Modi is right! MIGA!
Maybe we can get all of these hardworking strawberry pickers here illegally to get their fat wives and kids to work in AMERICAN garment industries? They aren’t doing anything anyway while lover boy is out working for peanuts. They can work for “a better life” instead of insisting that the gringos give it to them for free because we are born idiots.
Why is that a good thing?
American consumers and the American economy lose because costs and, therefore, prices, will certainly rise.
Aren’t you a British Subject?
Probably one of Jeff Bezos’ H1B Indian job thieves.
India hoes mad.
Wow! What exhaustive reporting to sample more than 12 people out of supposedly 600,000 (a 0.00002% sample with no measurable confidence interval) who are affected and draw the conclusions presented here. How is it Trump's fault that India has no unemployment insurance program?
I voted for this.
L
They can get a job working at a 7-11 till they learn to code (typed in my best Brandon voice)
Yep many American consumers are being priced out of the markets and add AI taking their jobs not much hope for Americans and Trump seems oblivious to the American low and middle incomes classes but he is wealthy and has no concerns...
AI is taking those jobs as well....
“He said he doesn’t know much about global trade policy, but he feels abandoned by his government. “No help has come,” he said. “No one cares what happens to us.”
Not. Our. Problem.
I do think some coding jobs are in jeopardy. Especially programmers who do little more than copy/paste snippets from the internet. But the deep designers and coders still have a place in the software market. At least for now.
An economy so heavily dependent on exports is heavily subject to the politics of other nations. India is finding that out, and hopefully we’ll soon be teaching China that same lesson.
Aren’t you a British Subject?
Why don’t you answer my question ?
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