Posted on 04/09/2025 6:46:14 AM PDT by karpov
Roofing-products manufacturer IKO North America has been on a factory-building spree in the U.S., with one plant completed and four more under construction. After President Trump launched a barrage of tariffs on U.S. trading partners, the math abruptly changed.
Chief Executive David Koschitzky said IKO’s just-finished factory in Texas now faces higher prices on the steel it uses to fabricate metal shingles, while the plants that are still being built need machinery that isn’t made in the U.S. The company will continue with the projects, he said, but tariffs will make them much more expensive.
“If we’re to be successful, that’s a cost that’s going to be passed on to the consumer,” Koschitzky said.
Trump’s tariff announcement threw a wrench into factory builders’ plans—and complicates a yearslong government effort to reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing. Companies are double-checking the numbers on planned factories, or halting them altogether.
Tariff-swollen building costs helped to kill a $300 million plastics recycling plant in Erie, Pa., that had been in the works for four years. International Recycling Group, helmed by CEO Mitch Hecht, said Thursday it was canceling the factory partly because new duties on material and imported machinery had created “expectations of substantially higher project development costs than anticipated.”
The company said the plant, which had been expected to generate 200 jobs, was also hampered by delays in securing a $182 million loan guarantee the federal government conditionally granted last year.
The past three years have seen an explosion of U.S. factory investment, driven in part by billions of dollars in Biden administration subsidies for manufacturers supporting the semiconductor and electric-vehicle industries as well as renewable-energy projects. Companies have also sought to shorten supply chains that became strained during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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“Tariffs will hurt U.S. manufacturing by driving up input costs..”
Said all the fat bodies on the first day of fat camp detox.
The American consumer has born the costs of our de industrialization for the benefit of a small elite arbitrage /financial oligarchy since the end of WWII.
Via predatory taxation and disadvantageous (to us) trade agreements, our foreign policy and economic experts enriched themselves at the expense of America’s productive classes and with them, the last best hope for the supremacy of Western Civilization.
After 60 years of WSJ Editorial Page endorsed America Last policies we find our selves with a negative foreign reserves account while unable to build warships, sew combat boots, or provide medical supplies/pharma to our sick or wounded.
Further, we have happily taught our enemies and “allies” our know how/show how, then let them steal our IP, while exploiting their pollution choked subsistence level peasantry in factories we built and trained them to use.
So, stuff it. Like Rocky training for the next big fight after laying about getting fat and slow for a few years..... it’s going to hurt for a bit.
We used to go to war singing ready to sacrifice every comfort and a good number of our young for our independence.....now the ruling pogs bitch about an extra 25% on their French Champagne and latest Chinese trinket.
MAGA or death!
But I do not feel strongly about it.
I wonder if the American people will have the patience for the austerity, scarcity, and inflation of the bitter medicine.
A good plan today is better than a prefect plan tomorrow.
Since literally NO ONE in government was willing nor is willing bedside’s Trump to address and fix this issue, this is the battle we must fight.
There is no other option available and no one ha seven presented anything close to a workable plan as an alternative to trump’s plan.
And NO the whole idea of more studies, congress needs a bi-partisan solution, offend the world less are not a viable alternatives, those are all the things we have literally been forced to do for decades and they led to this mess.
AI: Several months to over a year
The time it takes to build an auto factory can vary significantly, with an average factory build ranging from $2,700,000 to $4,000,000 and taking several months to over a year1. Once the factory is built, it takes automakers about 18 to 35 hours to produce one mass-market vehicle, from welding to full engine assembly to painting2
You dropped this, man.
WSJ-Karpov-National Review.
There is a price to pay in to again have an economy based on fundamentally sound manufacturing vs. financial bullshit.
>> Trump’s tariff announcement threw a wrench into factory builders’ plans—and complicates a yearslong government effort to reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing
Yeah it does! Because it’s no longer of simply finding some cheaper foreign manufacturer of whatever widget you need.
Now you’ll need to take the harder (but worthwhile and sustainable) path of bringing manufacturing back to America where it belongs.
MAGA! And in-country manufacturing is part of “Great”.
I do skim the threads I start, but most of the responses are just name-calling of me or the source.
>> No matter what anyone does NOTHING is to be made here.
Yeah, what could go wrong??!? We’ll live off of
entertainment, financial services, asset inflation, and health care (except making drugs and medical equipment, of course).
We could ask our enslaved kids to weigh in on “what could go wrong” after a generation or two.
Gee, how could we ever solve this problem????
I rather doubt it. And the midterms will be the big tell. If things don’t look bright by spring and summer next year, the Dems will be back, impeachment, and maybe conviction. Then deep state misery forever.
Because you are Engaging in Transparently Disseminating Sh;t, or TDS.
>> It’ll take 8 to 10 years to build the factories, train people, and get everything running here.
Bullshit. The chinkychanks are throwing up factories and powerplants in months. Elon is doing that here! It’s a question of will and skill.
Of course, you’re so used to socialist Yurp, you can be forgiven for not knowing what you’re talking about.
>> Transparently Disseminating Sh;t, (TDS)
Thanks for that! I learned something useful today.
>> The WSJ is as credible as the NYT anymore.
The “news” portion of WSJ has been incredible and biased for a couple of decades now.
The opinion pages aren’t far behind... entrenched deepstate they are.
Doesn’t really matter to me because of their paywall, and damned if I’ll pay their danegeld.
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