Putting tarrifs on these metals, is goin to be passed to the consumer. I wonder if he thinks it is goin to push the USA to start manufacturing goods made of these material here in the US? With pretty much everything being brought in from over seas this is a long shot, very very long shot.
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you don't think we manufacture goods in the US?
No, there is stuff manufactured here in the US but just look on the shelves at the stores and see where the majority of stuff comes from, not the US.
If you actually look, depending what stores and what stuff, a lot of stuff is made in America.
That is true but the majority is from elsewhere. It might be assembled in the US but the raw materials themselves come from elsewhere. Take danner boots for instance. They say made in the USA but all the material come from overseas. Now Wesco boots uses ONLY materials from the USA to build their boots. That’s the big difference in assembled and made in the USA. Just my .02
you have to read the labels that's for sure, I am often surprised to see a lot of things made in America that I would not expect to be, Bic lighters from Walmart, it's not even an American company yet they are made in America. Things like iPhones are made in china because Chinese people work cheaper than trying to retool an automated assembly line every few months when a new model comes out. But something like tube socks that are mostly made by a machine and don't change much over time are available American made. But if you are not careful they will be assembled in America. America produces a lot of raw materials, oil, lumber, cotton, corn. The only things it makes sense to outsource are those that are very labor intensive to manufacture. As robots get more flexible cheaper and easier to program Chinese workers will become obsolete.