I have moved all of our metals and plastics back to US suppliers for our company’s production requirements. It just made sense for us.
That being said, my wife and I bought a number of clothing items (t-shirts, 2 pairs of “Texans” jeans, 2 sweatshirts, men’s briefs and socks)from the Made in USA store that Beck advertised a year or two ago.
I have to say that every item we purchased was over priced, ill fitting, made of the cheapest possible material and absolute garbage quality.
We have played China now, to completion.
That is to say, China is now becoming more powerful than America.
Their trade balance is now the same as our own, some estimates have them exceeding us in trade. And constantly (and quickly) gaining ground.
China has 4-5 times America’s population.
People we need to compete, and we need to do so now.
Stop selling out America. What is more, China does not compete fairly. They require we maintain minority ownership, while they continue to compete against us completely freely.
Enough of that.
Compete. Buy American. Strengthen America.
Now.
I have moved all of our metals and plastics back to US suppliers for our company’s production requirements. It just made sense for us.
We recently made the same decision. If you really really want get terrifying reality check, trace the tortured chain of custody of the supply chain for goods produced in Asia.
If you buy a Japanese made product, it was likely shipped from a Chinese factory. The Chinese factory subcontracts a large portion of the fabrication and ships the raw materials to Vietnam who then subcontracts manufacturing to to Cambodia and ships some of the raw materials to there, and so on and so forth until the subcontracted components are shipped back to Vietnam and then back to China for shipping to Japan.
Products go through multiple low rent countries with minimal infrastructure and stability.
A lot of Companies offshoring are going to get the stool kicked out from under them and be in a world of hurt if there are any disruptions in stability in the region.
Happy to say we anticipated the current trend toward re building American manufacturing, but the Obama administration is doing everything they can to screw things up