People have been brining this up since last summer. The apparel business is almost mandatory to be oversees. Our labor rates are just not competitive. I don’t blame Trump one bit. The only argument one could make is that the Trump shirts and ties are marked up quite bit and could potentially handle some higher labor cost. It would still hit the profit margin pretty hard, so I don’t think there’s much of an argument there.
The reason people keep bringing this up is not because it is a bad business decision for Trump to have the clothes made overseas. It is because Trump has based a significant part of his campaign on promising to punish companies that have made the same economic decision HE has made. Why are you okay with Trump having his clothing line made overseas, but not okay with Ford making cars in Mexico, or Apple making computers in China?