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.

  • deur@feddit.nl
    112·
    7 days ago

    No, dipshit. US manufacturing isnt at a scale large enough to have a solid low-volume industry, period. Shut up and learn to read.

    • John Richard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      07·
      7 days ago

      You’ve provided no proof other than that is what she is claimed. Show me what effort she actually put into doing it in America. You’re so gullible.

      • AtariDump@lemmy.world
        21·
        7 days ago

        Food-grade silicone, which she uses for her products, is not available domestically. When she looked into the cost of importing the material when she first started, it was more expensive than importing a finished product, and the prices have gone up since then. Manufacturing facilities in the US with the compression mold machines she needed require much larger runs than she can commit to. The minimum requirements for factories here was 20,000 – in China, she could do a couple thousand at a time.

        Making the molds for her products takes about two months. They also are made in China – many American manufacturers send American steel to China to makemolds because they’re better at it there, she said. The molds alone would cost up to $75,000 in the US. If she found a factory and the capital needed to get it all going, it would still take a minimum of four months until she had products ready to sell, she estimated.

        “It’s financially impossible for me to manufacture here. But even if I had an angel that just dropped a million dollars in my lap, it doesn’t make sense as a business model for how much we would have to charge for the product and charge the consumer,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense. So I wish I understood the big picture, or how they expect us to pivot in this tiny window of time. I don’t understand, I just don’t understand this.”

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        You really can’t read and are hell bent on putting the screws to someone who is a SBO manufacturing in China. Go be pissed at WalMart, not this lady you troll.

        • John Richard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          13·
          7 days ago

          Where are you getting that food-grade silicone isn’t available domestically? That simply isn’t true in any way whatsoever:

          https://specialtyresin.com/products/cast-a-mold-platinum-food-grade

          Also, where are you getting 2 months to make a mold? Show me the actual attempts she made to have it done somewhere other than China. All you’ve told me thus far is that deep down you believe in de-regulation & lowering minimum wage here in the US.

          Oh, look at this, low-production silicone parts available within days & even in the state where she lives:

          https://www.protolabs.com/services/injection-molding/liquid-silicone-rubber-molding/

          Everything out of this woman’s mouth has been a lie. You should see her house… maybe she should sell a few acres instead of complaining about not being able to exploit cheap labor. Given the number of flags in front of her house though, she may have actually voted for Trump.