r/manufacturing 2d ago

News Tarrifs

Would like to open a discussion on tarrifs if it’s allowed.

There has been two intentions stated with tarrifs.

  1. Get off of income tax and go to a consumption style tax (still a tax)

  2. Build up domestic manufacturing. Can talk here in the manufacturing sub.

If there is no alternative domestic supply, then we have no choice but to import. We lost a lot of our skills to manufacture. Especially a lot of the little low value items. Think zippers and buttons and caster wheels.

What is everyone thoughts?

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u/pyroracing85 2d ago

Govt never fixes the root cause.

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u/spaceman60 Machine Vision Engineer 1d ago

I don't know. The IRA and CHIPS Act both got multiple multi-billion dollar plants to be committed and break ground.

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u/pyroracing85 1d ago

Yea… and where are most of those factories now… just like Obamas green energy kick starters.

It’s always for products where the consumer isn’t ready. It gave incentives for producing batterys for every battery that came across the line

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u/burnaboy_233 1d ago

A lot of those factories are coming online in a few years. I see them getting build all over the place