Coons: Tariffs Would Take a While and Costs of Manufacturing In U.S. ‘Still Too High’

Breitbart ^ | 04/05/2025 | Ian hatchett

[ChicagoConservative27]

On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that large tariffs won’t bring back steel or auto plants to his state “in less than five or ten years. And the costs of competing, of manufacturing here in the United States are still too high.”

Coons said, “There was a 100-year-old steel mill in Claymont, Delaware. We worked hard to try and save it, but, ultimately, it closed. There were two auto plants in Delaware. Ultimately, they closed. High tariffs won’t bring those plants back in less than five or ten years. And the costs of competing, of manufacturing here in the United States are still too high.”

[rdcbn1]

There are huge 100% automated factories in China that are called “lights out factories” because there are literally no people working in them and thus they don't need to use lighting.

Obviously, direct labor costs are not a huge issue for these manufacturing facilities given that they do not use human labor.

These factories are being built in low wage places like China and Mexico and not the US and Canada.

In fact, there seems to be a very counter intuitive inverse correlation between high cost of labor and the implementation of lights out factories given that they seem to locate in very low wage, often third world countries and not in high wage , first world locals.

Obviously, direct labor costs are not the primary driving consideration in investing in locating a modern, automated production facility.

Perhaps we should ponder why the US has become such an unattractive place to do business and to locate a manufacturing plant, especially given that the United States is the primary intended final sales destination for the products produced in such plants.

[imardmd1]

Delaware is going to lose more businesses because of commitment to people like Biden ans Coons and Carney. The Republicans havew for years not offered up the better class of dedicated statesmen like Bill Roth ans Pete Dupont.

Huge businesses who once incorporated under Delaware laws are now fleeing from it, I suppose because of changes in it. Has nothing to do with Trump's agenda, everything to do with coons' Marxistic approach.

[imardmd1]

What Coons is not telling you is that Amazon has leveled the ancient outdated General Motors auto plant and dug up its foundations and replaced it with a huge distribution center alongside the railroad sidings that once brought in materials and shipped out vehicles.

What is strikimg is that Amazon bought out that whole site, then built a huge transshipment trucking center with fifty or more docks for semis at the far end of the County-owned airport with a runway long enough that once landed Concordes, and has hosted military functional operations for almost a century and now a Air National Guard wing of C-130 transports, but from what I have heard is that the state and/or county wouldn't let Amazon have an access road to use the air side to receive/send air shipments, so there the trucking center sits, completed and idle now for a year. A great center of business useless.

Why isn't Chris Coons (his father-in-law was W. L. Gore, the innovator of the Gore-Tex fabric business) crying over this tremendous loss of up-to-date business and accommodations for it?

Duh.

[ronnie raygun]

Coons, Delaware still small and insignificant

[imardmd1]

CORRECTION to my Post #43:

. . . his -father-in-law- was W. L. Gore . . .

. . . his step-father was W. L. Gore . . .

[imardmd1]

No, it is not, when Biden came from it for yearsd, and when many very major companies are incorporated there, and their policies and law-suits are reviewed and decided there. affects the nation and the world. You are committing a big error that many others do also, thinking that DE is a no-account state.

Did you know that there is no retail sales tax here, and many near-by people come to shop here?

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

When someone told Senator Muskie that the pending Clean Water Act would put companies out of business, he said, if they can’t clean up, let them go out of business.

The EPA has taken take as their standard ever since, and there is virtually no requirement that a regulation be cost effective.

The US has higher (and more costly) environmental standards than most other nations. We are happy to let other people live in pollution so long as we get cheap goods. Why not a tariff to offset lower environmental standards?

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Oops! I missed this part:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/05/coons-tariffs-on-dirty-steel-from-china-and-russia-would-level-playing-field/

Do i feel stupid, agreeing with a DemocRat!

[philman_36]

Coons said, “There was a 100-year-old steel mill in Claymont, Delaware. We worked hard to try and save it, but, ultimately, it closed.

Evarz Claymont Steel mill suspending operations

Evraz announced Monday morning it is suspending operations at its Delaware facility due to “subdued market demand and the high volume of imports.”

There were two auto plants in Delaware. Ultimately, they closed.

GM closing Boxwood Road, last auto plant in Delaware July 12, 2009

GM, which got out of bankruptcy court Friday, announced in June it would close the complex near Newport, Del., opened in 1947.

The stinging bite of irony, especially regarding the steel mill.

[philman_36]

See above on GM declaring bankruptcy and closing shop.

[philman_36]

See 49. GM bankruptcy in DE closed one auto plant.

[wiseprince]

Oh not, 5 whole years. This guy represents Delaware? It’s amazing to me why Democrat governors right now aren’t moving heaven and earth trying to get companies into the state and using tariffs as a marketing tool. Instead they are fighting Trump to keep other nations strong. It’s so telling.