logoalt Hacker News

firesteelraintoday at 9:00 PM1 replyview on HN

how does a small US manufacturer compete when a foreign producer can duplicate 70–80% of the functional product at a fraction of the cost?


Replies

pessimizertoday at 9:21 PM

They can't. But how is that unfair? It's literally a choice we made.

And it's the one thing that unites every mainstream politician against Trump - they can't agree on tons of stuff, other than that we definitely should not be using tariffs to defend local manufacturers against Chinese (or any other) imports. I've been assured that those jobs are "not coming back." Well, big surprise - they're also not going to stop disappearing.

show 1 reply