Covid really highlighted how global trade was a flow and not discrete at all. Remember the "supply chain crisis"?
Long term goals aside, I hope Trump's moves are enough to really throw a wrench in global trade. Ultimately, I want American production back. But for the moment, I'll settle for collapse of some fake and gay industries.
I live in a port city and have noticed more tractors without trailers transiting these past couple weeks, and possibly a drop in truck volume as well (but I don't have real data).
I've been aware that a reduction in truck traffic in my area could indicate trouble for the economy as a leading indicator, and wondered what event would need to take place to make them stop altogether. The tariff announcements ended up being that leading indicator. I have concerns about what implications will be.
Oh no, minor economic hardship to New York and California's metropolii! Think of all the people that live there! Whatever will we do? Can we raise tariffs more?
The production plant I work at gets raw materials from China (and other places) that aren't always straightforward to replace. Even if they are replaced with more expensive alternatives it will result in higher prices for our customers.
What my plant produces goes into making other raw materials that make products we all buy and use, no consumers would ever buy what we produce directly.
Then what consumers buy it is more expensive and they will buy less, and my plant will get signals to produce less. Finally I or my co-workers are then reduced hours or laid off.
Consumers will eventually have to take a hit, tariff or not, Chyna achieved the low price by using near slave labors to knock out the competitions and become the sole supplier, at which point they can raise the prices because there is no alternative supplier.
Don't we want less global trade to save the environment? More local manufacturing reduces the carbon footprint of literally everything.
It just seems like no matter the ideological angle you come from it's beneficial, and it's something I always use as a major benefit of preventing offshoring production to the third world.
Shipping containers are just so inefficient compared to transporting raw materials as you can fill it to the brim when transporting ore for example. There's a reason vessels transporting shipping containers are stacked so damned high and are so big.
It's uncertain what will be affected, but whatever freight currently inbound form China will be the last for the next TWO WEEKS.
NOTE: A "blank sailing," also known as a "void sailing," is a scheduled sailing that a carrier has canceled, potentially skipping a single port or entire leg of a route, or canceling the entire service string.
I don't get much from China directly, but I'm not fool enough to think they don't provide parts for the industries that I do purchase from, in example Chinese machine shop parts for farming parts to eventually down the line get food from non-China locations.
Those are long-term goods. There is time to find alternatives, before the existing pieces break down or require significant repair, but it is good that it is so obvious and open that such alternatives will be required soon.
I work directly at the largest container port on the east coast. So far, there has been no change. We have ships every day this week, and truck traffic has been the same. If anything, it's been a little busier.
I'm sure that may change at some point, but as of TODAY - No.
Covid really highlighted how global trade was a flow and not discrete at all. Remember the "supply chain crisis"?
Long term goals aside, I hope Trump's moves are enough to really throw a wrench in global trade. Ultimately, I want American production back. But for the moment, I'll settle for collapse of some fake and gay industries.
Despite all of the US's "innovation", it doesn't mean shit if you're incapable of manufacturing it. You're just a glorified idea guy.
Ask leftisrs why are we exploiting the chinese for cheap labor and polluting their environment. Try to turn it into a human rights and green angle.
Say that if a worker dont have to work 12 hrs a day making your dilator, they can have more free time to figure out they are trans.
I live in a port city and have noticed more tractors without trailers transiting these past couple weeks, and possibly a drop in truck volume as well (but I don't have real data).
I've been aware that a reduction in truck traffic in my area could indicate trouble for the economy as a leading indicator, and wondered what event would need to take place to make them stop altogether. The tariff announcements ended up being that leading indicator. I have concerns about what implications will be.
This punishes the coastal cities, because they used trade to prop up their other companies and projects.
Oh no, minor economic hardship to New York and California's metropolii! Think of all the people that live there! Whatever will we do? Can we raise tariffs more?
It runs a lot deeper than that.
The production plant I work at gets raw materials from China (and other places) that aren't always straightforward to replace. Even if they are replaced with more expensive alternatives it will result in higher prices for our customers.
What my plant produces goes into making other raw materials that make products we all buy and use, no consumers would ever buy what we produce directly.
Then what consumers buy it is more expensive and they will buy less, and my plant will get signals to produce less. Finally I or my co-workers are then reduced hours or laid off.
Consumers will eventually have to take a hit, tariff or not, Chyna achieved the low price by using near slave labors to knock out the competitions and become the sole supplier, at which point they can raise the prices because there is no alternative supplier.
Don't we want less global trade to save the environment? More local manufacturing reduces the carbon footprint of literally everything.
It just seems like no matter the ideological angle you come from it's beneficial, and it's something I always use as a major benefit of preventing offshoring production to the third world.
Shipping containers are just so inefficient compared to transporting raw materials as you can fill it to the brim when transporting ore for example. There's a reason vessels transporting shipping containers are stacked so damned high and are so big.
It's uncertain what will be affected, but whatever freight currently inbound form China will be the last for the next TWO WEEKS.
Fun stuff.
I don't get much from China directly, but I'm not fool enough to think they don't provide parts for the industries that I do purchase from, in example Chinese machine shop parts for farming parts to eventually down the line get food from non-China locations.
Those are long-term goods. There is time to find alternatives, before the existing pieces break down or require significant repair, but it is good that it is so obvious and open that such alternatives will be required soon.
I work directly at the largest container port on the east coast. So far, there has been no change. We have ships every day this week, and truck traffic has been the same. If anything, it's been a little busier.
I'm sure that may change at some point, but as of TODAY - No.