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To: InterceptPoint
U.S. manufacturing is quite healthy and growing
Then why is it when I shop for almost anything - clothes, appliances, TVs, electronics, furniture, vehicles - the vast majority are not made in the US?
21 posted on 07/28/2016 6:09:33 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven
Then why is it when I shop for almost anything - clothes, appliances, TVs, electronics, furniture, vehicles - the vast majority are not made in the US?

Read the article. It has quite a good explanation for that issue.

27 posted on 07/28/2016 6:15:23 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you should have endorsed. Big mistake.)
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To: oh8eleven
Then why is it when I shop for almost anything - clothes, appliances, TVs, electronics, furniture, vehicles - the vast majority are not made in the US?

Because those are low margin, labor intensive products which are more cheaply made overseas in places like Asia. And that is why, regardless of what Trump says, you're not going to see that kind of manufacturing returning to the U.S.

28 posted on 07/28/2016 6:16:01 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: oh8eleven

Most vehicles sold in the US are made in the US. They just don’t have Big Three nameplates anymore.


80 posted on 07/28/2016 7:59:58 AM PDT by riverdawg
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