Posted on 05/06/2025 7:17:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
American manufacturers are seeing a surge in demand as President Donald Trump’s tariffs force companies to reconsider doing business in China.
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Jergens Inc., a midwestern toolmaker with less than 500 employees, says it’s “going like gangbusters” trying to keep up with demand, The Wall Street Journal reported. They are seeing an influx of orders from customers trying to avoid import tariffs, along with steady defense-related demand.
“We are running 24 hours a day, seven days a week” said Jergens president Jack Schron, according to the Journal. “We are swamped.”
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The spike in new business reported by many American manufacturers coincides with a sharp decrease in Chinese manufacturing. When Trump announced the tariffs last month, he predicted American businesses and consumers would both benefit.
“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base,” Trump has said. “We will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers. And ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers.”
Even as the president insists prices will fall, economists and politicians warn his tariffs could sharply raise costs for American consumers, CNBC reported. However, executives at SafeSource Direct, a Louisiana-based medical products manufacturer, say prices are likely to decline as domestic production ramps up, according to the Journal.
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What a price to pay for WINNING !!
Great story.
To be honest, us Americans should have quit buying from China all along. IMHO, China invests in universities and social media and such to downgrade Americana in part so to lower the percentage of American made goods.
The MSM is reporting NONE OF THESE THINGS!............DOOM! DESPIR! AGONY!.....................
The problem is that the tariffs need to be made permanent to attract the investment needed to increase capacity and to incentivize foreign manufacturers to in-shore. Foreign manufacturers investing in the US was a major source of growth in the US in the 19th century.
The problem is that no business wants to lose to competitors who earn more or charge less by using imports. That's why a national policy that affects everyone like tariffs is necessary.
Tech labor needs the same protections by banning H1Bs and taxing software outsourcing.
The whole point of the tariff tactic, really.
The problem is that the tariffs need to be made permanent to attract the investment needed to increase capacity and to incentivize foreign manufacturers to in-shore
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We need Congress for that and these worthless republicans have done absolutely NOTHING to help the president. The Republican Party is doing it again. They handcuffed Trump in 2016 and they are doing it again this term. After this election I will never vote for a Republican again. Fool me once………fool me twice……..
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“To be honest, us Americans should have quit buying from China all along.”
If I could find US made stuff I would do so. I also will not buy junk just because it is made here.
The blame for all this lies squarely on the US companies that trashed their workers and moved production to Chinese and other asian sweatshops. The primary reason they did so was so they could have higher profits. For that you can thank brainless regulation and the unions.
For example, Xtratuff used to make great wet boots. They then decided to dump all of their American employees and move production to China. The quality went to crap, and the price went up thirty bucks. The real issue is the unbelievable greed of outfits that don’t care about their customers, don’t care about their product, and don’t care about their country.
Most of the brand name goods sold by supposedly US companies are made overseas.
Yes and no. I agree that there's cheaper labor overseas, thus the temptation to move production out of the U.S. But part of the math for doing so are the tariffs and import restrictions that China and other countries put on American made goods. Just like now, some companies are moving production back to the U.S. to avoid the new tariffs for selling in the U.S., similarly for decades companies moved production overseas to avoid tariffs that those countries had on us for selling in those countries.
how can this be true?
i havent seen anything on the leftist legacy media
Hmmm. No, “but we need illegal aliens to do the work” in this story. What gives?
Giving our enemy And competitor most favored nation trading status was insane in the first place.
won’t see this story on the corrupt evening news.
That’s the idea.
Bring manufacturing and jobs back to America.
But but but tariffs are bad
The real issue was letting China into the WTO.
All the charts for trade with China started going down the year they were admitted into the WTO.
It was not just the USA. It was Canada, Japan, UK, France, Italy and all the other first world/G7 economies.
Patrick Bet David showed the charts on his podcast a couple weeks ago.
So, I really blame GHW Bush and the Clintons. Then NAFTA was the real crusher to USA jobs that allowed companies to build factories in Mexico and ship everything up here and into Canada with no tariffs or duty. It really was a Giant Sucking Sound.
It went to the Red Sox game on Saturday night at Fenway.
I had lost my fitted Sox hat. The only place you can buy them is at the team store on Yawkee Way.
I picked out the basic navy blue hat in size 7 1/2 made by New Era. Official MLB team apparel hat. Same one the players wear.
Made in China for $60.
You would think a $60 hat could be made in the USA?
I ALMOST put it back.
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