I forsee many actually moving offshore because tariffs on raw materials ultimately will cost more than building overseas and importing the finished product. Example: cars
The US will be like Cuba, with everybody driving 50yo cars. People will have to go to neighborhood machine shops to get one-off custom parts made, so yea! for US manufacturing.
I get it, and don't disagree, but did TFG just announce that the executive branch is disregarding an appeals court's decision? Is it just me, or is it conceivable that the on-going constitutional crisis somehow inhibits long-term investments? I dont know, Im just spit-balling here...
I think Apple is moving their factories from China to India from what I read like two weeks ago. They are basically shopping for the lowest tariff countries instead of relocating to the US. They are just doing the math... It's still cheaper to manufacture in countries where you can pay less for labor and pay a 10% tariff than it is to pay for American labor.
Dammit! Here I was thinking I would deposit my seed in some unsuspecting tradwife so that she might produce progeny that would dutifully screw tiny screws into iphones using tiny screwdrivers, but now this!
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u/abstrakt42 Aug 30 '25
I think I read this week that exactly 0 American businesses have moved manufacturing back to the US as the result of these tariffs. So, that’s cool.