US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: ‘I could lose my home’
www.theguardian.com
Beth Benike, whose products are manufactured in China, is ‘terrified’ what Trump trade war will mean for Busy Baby

Trump is bad. I agree… but why is the left suddenly all sympathetic towards rich people & CEOs like this, who exploit cheap labor.

  • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
    31·
    11 days ago

    Yeah but the only reason those supplies and services aren’t available in the US is because China has all the manufacturing scale. It’s not as if China is the only country that can make silicone.

    If trump keeps to these tarrifs and importing silicone becomes too expensive then someone will open a factory to produce it here. Same with small scale molding. If there is truly a demand for something the market will find a way to produce it.

    It may be more expensive because of higher labor standards, wages and environmental standards, but that just means it’s getting closer to the true cost of the product, instead of the one subsidized by environmental destruction and labor exploitation.

    • themachine@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 days ago

      Im by no means trying to defend our general reliance on Chinese manufacturing nor attempting to make a case rhat using their abused labor force is fine and good.

      I am also very much not in the business of defending the ultra rich mega corpos legitimately exploiting anything and everything they can for profit.

      I am only defending what appeaers to be an unfair and unnecessary attack of a persons character. It is true she is using Chinese manufacturing but if her words are to believed at her current scale bringing that to the US is impossible for her. I am not even remotely educated in any of these topics so i can do little more than read the article and respond but assuming her words are true then her actions are understandable.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      If trump keeps to these tarrifs and importing silicone becomes too expensive then someone will open a factory to produce it here.

      You’re talking about a 6-10 year project before it produces anything; but we can’t get the Commander in Cheese to stick to his word for 6 days.

      6 years is way more than 6 days. It’s longer than his presidency should be, but we’re not even sure of that.