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Why are they using anything imported anyways? All that the tariffs have done in my life so far is make me question what these "local" "American" companies have been doing. Mind you, two phrases have come back into my speech:
"No company is your friend, even if they make something you like." & " Silence, brand!"
Companies affected by the tariffs are now among the companies whose products I actively avoid.
Ah yes, let me just buy local from all of the American tea farms, American bauxite mines, and American aluminum refineries. Oh wait, America doesn’t actually produce meaningful amounts of any of those resources. Pretty much the only thing Arizona would reasonably be able to buy domestically is the sugar.
Not to mention any part of the factory automation technology. Capacitors on the circuit board are made in Japan if they’re decent, motor windings from China, solenoids , the lot.
The US imports lots of Aluminium and refines it into Aluminum
And most US sugar is foreign sourced.
Could be just aluminum for the cans, doesnt have to be that they are importing anything just that suppliers are.
I don't exempt a company from doing something if their supplier does it. They're at least complicit.
Complicit in... Importing goods that aren't made in the US or have a substantially more limited supply?
What are you saying they are complicit in here, trade with other companies?
The practices and policies of their suppliers. If the supply is limited, let it be limited.
The practices of buying goods for production? That some resources (aluminum) exist in other parts of the world? That others (tea) are better produced in a different climate?
What the hell are you even talking about?
Edit: Just to be clear here - this is a manufactured problem by the POTUS. There is absolutely no reason for the tariffs other than a complete lack of understanding of basic economics. Capitalism (especially effectively unregulated as it is now) is atrocious, but this isn't an example of capitalism being a problem (well aside from it being used as an excuse to raise prices).
This is just stupid policies being enacted. Its a tax on Americans and nothing else. This is just as insanely idiotic as slashing a bunch of programs that idiots dont bother to understand, which either are a net benefit for the US or an extremely cheap global benefit, whether humanitarian or economic.
Short answer: the people in charge are ignorant and destructive.
Tea famously does not grow in the US.
Plus, they sell in aluminum cans, which probably are sourced from Canada or Mexico, or are made in the US from aluminum sourced from Canada or Mexico.
And of course all of their machinery requires upkeep using parts and chemicals which may or may not be made abroad.
Here is a personal favorite of mine. Silence brands everywhere.
Tea absolutely can grow in the US, we just don't grow much of it.
It's the raw goods that American companies need. Most American manufacturers assemble in the United States. So they have to raise prices because if the raw goods imported.
Trump is so dumb he doesn't think past his tiny ass hands.
If the companies were responsible with all that recycling we've been doing over the last half-century, they wouldn't need to import raw metal. We'd be able to reuse all that glass and metal.
I guess this might be the only way to get American consumers to understand that the point was always Reduce, reuse, and recycle in descending importance; rather than the other way around.