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Manufacturers say Trump has made opening U.S. factories impossible (newrepublic.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Trump administration’s tariff scheme appears less and less likely to bring manufacturing jobs back to U.S. shores.

Businesses across the country are crunching the numbers and realizing that, despite Donald Trump’s insistence, they can’t balance out his tariff hikes across the supply chain.

“Some manufacturers who had plans to open factories in the country say the new duties are only adding to the significant obstacles they already faced,” Bloomberg reported Friday.

That’s because the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there, requiring companies to import raw materials and factory equipment—which Trump’s tariffs have made unaffordable—from abroad.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

The way I see, ~~Trump's~~ the Trump Administration's motives are:

(1) Plunder the government of anything of value.

(2) Cause a recession so rich can buy everything up on the market.

(3) Sabotage America geopolitically on behalf of foreign adversaries, most notably Russia.

(4) Cement power in their control and go after any rivals.

Edit: For clarification, I don't think it really matters what part of this is Trump himself versus the people he surrounds himself with and permits as the executive to do what they're doing in their own personal agendas that align with one or more of these 4 points.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Never listen to the reason they claim to be doing something, look only to what they are doing. And that, quite clearly, day after day indicates that they are doing everything they can to destroy the USA, as quickly as possible. Once one has determined what they are doing, then ask who does this benefit.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But you mean your company isn’t willing to make a years long investment in on-shore manufacturing capacity when the scales that make it advantageous to the company can change in any direction, at any point, for any made-up reason, by any amount? Don’t they love investing in America?

/s+++

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not even that entirely

You can't build X here unless every component is also produced... here. The component factories can't be built here here until there's factories building the subcomponents for them, AND a buyer for them here.

A button up shirt needs cotton -> chemical treatment -> dyes -> fabric, base chemicals > plastic pellets -> buttons, AND the machines to do all of those processes. It's like 7 or 8 different factories just to produce a shirt with buttons on it. Imagine how many factories it is for anything more complex.

Then in comes your point of needing commitment when it's not even certain for more than a week, nobody is going to build out entire supply chains in that scenario.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Another example would be Trump saying that US farmers now have unprecedented access to the UK market for sales but the US uses growth hormone which is banned in the UK and Europe. It's very unlikely they're going to designate a non growth hormone section of their farm just to ship beef overseas.

Which would only be financially sound if for some reason there is significant demand for American beef in the UK which.. Why would there be?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago

That is a very good point that I hadn’t considered, thanks for your response.

To your point, that just makes it even more of a ridiculous proposition.

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[–] [email protected] 242 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

You don't say. That kind of seemed obvious from the very fucking start. Trump is absurdly incompetent or he is actively working to destroy the country. I honestly can't tell which it is.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Trump may be incompetent but the architects of project 2025 are, unfortunately, not. Trump is merely their most useful idiot.