Posted on 12/04/2021 8:04:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Lay down with dogs...get up with fleas...
The same thing we do now:
Subsidize them to create more.
They learned to like those near slave wages paid in third world countries to obedient workers who don’t complain and factories that have no safety standards in third world countries with no EPA. Huge profit increase even after the costs of shipping.
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It is already here....
“Huge profit increase even after the costs of shipping.”
Having Most Favored Nation status means the Chi-coms don’t pay for the shipping. WE pay the shipping through subsidies and grants.
Since the Chi-coms are World Trade Organization members, since 2001, it would take a lot to strip them of their MFN status.
It could be done but it would take a Trump with eight years ahead in the White House to do it.
That's why Amazon is flooded with Chinese suppliers selling directly into the US these days.
I recommend the Cultivate browser plug-in for Chrome and Brave - it's free and displays a little message telling you where the Amazon seller and the brand come from, making it easy to avoid Chinese products if you want to. Of course, in quite a few categories there is no competition - it's buy China or do without.
I don’t buy from Amazon so it isn’t a problem for me. When buying in stores I do check labels. Surprisingly many clothing items are made in india and other countries.
Hard to find items made in the USA anymore.
“We are so screwed.”
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............was it Khruschev or Stalin that said....”they will sell us the rope with which we hang them with”..........or something like that.
The USA only makes expensive denim and cheap t-shirts because fabrics other than cotton are prohibitively expensive to produce here - thanks to your friendly neighborhood Democrats. I don't see apparel manufacturing ever coming back to the USA - but it would be a huge win if we could at least do more of it in our own hemisphere.
“but it would be a huge win if we could at least do more of it in our own hemisphere.”
If we could get Donald Trump back in office, or Ron DeSantis, I would love to see them bring as much manufacturing back home as possible. What can’t come back, like apparel, could be moved from China to Central and South America. Give them jobs there so they have no reason to come here. Win Win.
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