• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        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.