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by techpineapple 407 days ago
Feels like maybe the tariffs are working if they’re talking about moving their production stateside?
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They said they’re looking to “move out of China,” but that almost certainly doesn’t mean the U.S. Probably India or Vietnam, maybe Turkey or Malaysia.
And even if the factory where they're assembled is in the US, they still need to import the materials/components from...most likely not the US; that's why CyberPower is looking awfully grim atm, assembly in the states, but they won't be able to make the cost of the materials remotely worth it for that reason.
I have seen this comment a lot and don't understand it.

From the U.S.'s point of view there are two goals: increase manufacturing in the States, and reduce manufacturing in China.

Even if they don't choose the States, and even if things aren't near-shored, it is still a pretty big win for the administration, no?

If that was the goal, then why did Trump pull out of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)?

As far as I understood it, it was meant to work closely with a lot of east Asias counties to counter the influence of China and to promote trade.

Now the US kinda pissed of a lot of those countries, and china stepped in to trade with them.

Their own reply to themselves is a gif of Robin Williams yelling "GOOD MORNING VIETNAM"
Their answer to moving to the US:

> Obviously we’d love to move our factories back home to Seattle. We just need to figure out to make the rain in Seattle power an assembly line.

There was talk of coal jobs coming back too.