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And stranger that the US says it wouldn’t give tariff relief for parts for the Mac Pro. The ONLY model made in the US. Why would the need tariff relief if it was all made here?
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Nope, Mac Book, made in Austin TX.
@Rob01Was looking at inexpensive rifle scopes for a future CZ 457 purchase, and the Vortex Diamondback kept popping into the lineup. Seemed like a decent little scope for something I might shoot at 300 yards at the max. Made in China. I kept going back to that. Kept searching. Back to the Diamondback. More searching. Ugh.
Then, I read something about Nikon halting scope production, but they made great stuff in the past. Decent glass. The Nikon BLACK FX1000 Riflescopes are made in in the Philippines, with Japanese glass and parts. I found one, brand new for less than the Vortex Diamondback costs, and they (the Nikon) had an original SRP of $700. Just had to keep searching, instead of buying the first thing I saw.
There's still a lot of China crap out there. I'm guilty of shopping at Harbor Freight. But it's a start.
Don’t Kidd yourself both recent purchases....Some Danner boots same deal....These are my favorite work pants though....We need threads on HOW to avoid chinese good more than telling us to avoid chinese goods
It can be challenging to avoid them, even on simple stuff.
For example, some made in the USA clothes
Made in the USA Products | Duluth Trading Company
USA-made jeans, shirts, belts, work boots and shoes. Made in America with pride.www.duluthtrading.com
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We need threads on HOW to avoid chinese good more than telling us to avoid chinese goods
It can be challenging to avoid them, even on simple stuff.
For example, some made in the USA clothes
Made in the USA Products | Duluth Trading Company
USA-made jeans, shirts, belts, work boots and shoes. Made in America with pride.www.duluthtrading.com
.
I make fishing rods and we use USA and Korean Prepreg.
A lot of our competitors use finished Chinese blanks that cost about the same as our material costs.
The big pieces of equipment I use are USA made as well.
As of late, I have reduced my Chink Junk, to a minimum. What irks the shi* out of me, is that you'll look for an item on one shelf, it's "made in china" and can't find a like item on another shelf and pick the "made in USA" item. We do not have choices. You either buy Chinese or do without. 99.9% of everything in this great country, is F'n foreign made. I never really realized how we, as a country, are so embolden to F'n China. I remember learning in school, we made F'n everything here, except chrome products (mainly auto body parts), because we could not mine the ores to produce it. Shi*, we even allow China to produce our "life saving" drugs! WTF?? A commie country?? Politicians greed, has just F'd US beyond repair.
We've been sold out and we let it happen. Mac
Pretty impressed that Kestrel has remained Made in USA. Im sure some parts must be foreign sourced but they still carry the Madein US tag.
They seem ripe for moving their entire product production over seas.
Pisses me off when I see the new tag "Designed in the US. Manufactured in China". Why not just put on their "We fuck American workers".
Are we going to do an elemental origin analysis? Let me know what product will be left.
Thanks for that
My PC is on that list!
For those not familiar with electronics assembly, it's not particularly sensitive to labor cost if the product is designed correctly. It's not someone is picking up parts with tweezers and soldering them with an iron.
Check out just the first frame of this video, or skip to the 0:35 mark:
How many people do you see on that shop floor? How much money is saved by replacing those people and machines with manual labor in a foreign country? What percentage of the sell price of a $600 weather meter (or $1100 phone, or $2500 laptop) would this represent? What is the effect of having product stuck in a shipping container for six weeks? (Or worse, if, say, a pandemic breaks out.) What's the real cost of poor product quality?
But I've had this conversation with supposedly intelligent people, and they just don't get it. Some random Chinese company gave them a quote and cost breakdown that shows a 10% savings, and they run with it and think they're getting a deal. Kudos to the Nielsen-Kellerman guys for not buying into the bullshit.
A quick side note - a few semiconductor manufacturers need to get taken to the woodshed for their preferential pricing in certain Communist regions. Go hit up [name redacted] for domestic pricing on a given microcontroller, then do the same from an office in China. Same part, same performance, comes out of the same plant - but two completely different prices.
Good luck getting a free-trade dipshit like Larry Kudlow to identify and fix subtle problems like that. Fox, henhouse, etc.
For those not familiar with electronics assembly, it's not particularly sensitive to labor cost if the product is designed correctly. It's not someone is picking up parts with tweezers and soldering them with an iron.
Check out just the first frame of this video, or skip to the 0:35 mark:
How many people do you see on that shop floor? How much money is saved by replacing those people and machines with manual labor in a foreign country? What percentage of the sell price of a $600 weather meter (or $1100 phone, or $2500 laptop) would this represent? What is the effect of having product stuck in a shipping container for six weeks? (Or worse, if, say, a pandemic breaks out.) What's the real cost of poor product quality?
But I've had this conversation with supposedly intelligent people, and they just don't get it. Some random Chinese company gave them a quote and cost breakdown that shows a 10% savings, and they run with it and think they're getting a deal. Kudos to the Nielsen-Kellerman guys for not buying into the bullshit.
A quick side note - a few semiconductor manufacturers need to get taken to the woodshed for their preferential pricing in certain Communist regions. Go hit up [name redacted] for domestic pricing on a given microcontroller, then do the same from an office in China. Same part, same performance, comes out of the same plant - but two completely different prices.
Good luck getting a free-trade dipshit like Larry Kudlow to identify and fix subtle problems like that. Fox, henhouse, etc.
Assembled by a company called Hon Hai Precision, a chinese owned company. Just a small amount of research shows that a majority of iphones and ipads are built in the shenzen,china factories. They own and operate factories all over the world, you are correct there. They do make SOME iphone and ipads in Taiwan, but not all and not a majority. Either way you cook it, the majority of the money for production is going through mainland china first, I’m sure some makes it back to california. The image was more for the first line that said “Not only are they made in china”Are we going to do an elemental origin analysis? Let me know what product will be left.
Where are the chemicals used in making primer compounds from? Wyoming?
LMAO
Oh, and .gov is starting to "do something" about China. I received a query from one of my customers about our companies dealings with certain foreign companies. It seems that these .govs can no longer do business with any company that does business with these specific Foreign (Chinese) companies...
Oh, and .gov is starting to "do something" about China. I received a query from one of my customers about our companies dealings with certain foreign companies. It seems that these .govs can no longer do business with any company that does business with these specific Foreign (Chinese) companies...
Who wouldn't step into the shoes of Hunter Biden having millions of dollars stuffed into your pockets along with the best whores on the planet sucking your dick........
Please Consider the bigger picture when you shop for products. I’m not wealthy and I have 4 school aged kids that I have to pay bills for, so I get it. However, if we continue to turn a blind eye to this consistent pattern where Chinese companies (meaning the communist government) blatantly steal technology, copy it, then offer it at a lower price, then THEY WILL OWN US.
Director Of National Intelligence: China Is Targeting Congress With Threats
On Thursday, writing in The Wall Street Journal, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe issued a clarion call warning of China’s determination to dominate the United States, revealing that he had “briefed the House and Senate Intelligence committees that China is targeting members of...www.dailywire.com
A while ago most would be able to stay the course but with the dollars getting crazy...billions with a B no one is immune.
Assembled by a company called Hon Hai Precision, a chinese owned company. Just a small amount of research shows that a majority of iphones and ipads are built in the shenzen,china factories. They own and operate factories all over the world, you are correct there. They do make SOME iphone and ipads in Taiwan, but not all and not a majority. Either way you cook it, the majority of the money for production is going through mainland china first, I’m sure some makes it back to california. The image was more for the first line that said “Not only are they made in china”
LMAO...I would do a little more of your own research b4 engaging. Hon Hai Precision is aka Foxconn with HQ in Taiwan. Largest CM in the world. Wholly owned by Taiwanese. I have visited Foxconn in Taiwan a number of times. I guess that all of the iPhones/iPads I saw flowing through the line in Taiwan were actually made in the PRC and were there merely to provide us the illusion.
Point being that "Buy made in America" is nothing but empty useless rhetoric. Everything other than highly complex items not made for consumers or expensive specialty items that have a minuscule part of the economy is made in the PRC or somewhere overseas. Wait until smoking Joe and Cuntmilla finish the deal. It will create a nice pile of POORs in the US.
The bankers and globalists sold us out LONG ago....like it or not
So this same FOXCONN that is formerly known as Hon Hai? The one with the corporate address in china? Having a HQ in a country doesn’t make it owned by that country. I also said a MAJORITY of iphones and ipads made in china. I have no doubt there are plenty of them rolling out of taiwan.LMAO...I would do a little more of your own research b4 engaging. Hon Hai Precision is aka Foxconn with HQ in Taiwan. Largest CM in the world. Wholly owned by Taiwanese. I have visited Foxconn in Taiwan a number of times. I guess that all of the iPhones/iPads I saw flowing through the line in Taiwan were actually made in the PRC and were there merely to provide us the illusion.
Point being that "Buy made in America" is nothing but empty useless rhetoric. Everything other than highly complex items not made for consumers or expensive specialty items that have a minuscule part of the economy is made in the PRC or somewhere overseas. Wait until smoking Joe and Cuntmilla finish the deal. It will create a nice pile of POORs in the US.
The bankers and globalists sold us out LONG ago....like it or not
Hi,
Here is a thought/suggestion that is definitely easier to enact change to than "stop getting China products"....
This entire Nationalization of manufacturing thing requires baby steps...
Suggested first step:
Start with the manufacturers that are ALREADY in USA and see just how many employees are on work visas...each one of those are theoretically a job that a USA citizen could be doing.
For example there is a very very well known Furniture chain in Houston Texas that has shitloads of commercials about Quality American Made products yet he sponsors hundreds and hundreds of work visas.
Trying to solve this issue from top down is not going to be very successful but starting at the bottom could very well be.
Stop buying meat products from packing houses that sponsor thousands of work visas.
List goes on and on.
Sincerely,
Theis
if you guys only knew the scam the government calls “work visa” you’d puke.
for professional jobs/doctors it works pretty well. At times they steal docs (but not more than a purchasing agent takes a few pictures of a pricing screen before they are hired away). A lot of times even if they steal data or methods their country of origin doesn’t have the ability to capitalize anyway.
for what we’re talking about it’s a waste of paper that isn’t enforced 1%...maybe less.
...and yes I know what I’m talking about more so than most unfortunately
Good points. I’ll add that besides labor you still have to consider the tax and regulatory burden put on these companies by the US Gov’t. China isn’t inspecting g their factories with OSHA, EPA, state labor boards and 10 other regulatory groups.
Eh, I have a hard time pinning too much of the blame on these reasons, at least for operations like basic electronics assembly. Most plants now run 100% lead-free process (the exceptions being niche stuff like some legacy military and aerospace products), and the worker safety issues are minimal with modern equipment ("modern" in this context basically being anything less than 25 years old). Same if you're molding some plastic parts or machining castings or any number of other processes that purchasing agents love to send overseas.
The last few places I've worked at which manufactured in the US didn't bother to itemize regulatory costs - and that wasn't because these companies were not concerned about costs (this was in the automotive industry, where we did stuff like adjust prices on a daily basis to account for commodity cost changes).
Yeah, it's a different story if you're running a brass foundry (saw one of those fold due to i regulatory issues with heavy metals that were insurmountable with any sort of reasonable investment), or you've got a one-man operation where it's impossible to bury a few hundred man-hours/year. But that's not what we're discussing.
We need threads on HOW to avoid chinese good more than telling us to avoid chinese goods
It can be challenging to avoid them, even on simple stuff.
For example, some made in the USA clothes
Yeah...Ok. Bought some long sleeve shirts and some shorts from them, guess where they were made?? Vietnam! But I will digress, they haven't shrunk. MacMade in the USA Products | Duluth Trading Company
USA-made jeans, shirts, belts, work boots and shoes. Made in America with pride.www.duluthtrading.com
Shit sign me up. Besides the fuckin the niece part, I’ll take all the other awesome shit that comes with being the black sheep in a millionaire family.Who wouldn't step into the shoes of Hunter Biden having millions of dollars stuffed into your pockets along with the best whores on the planet sucking your dick........
LMAO...they have facilities all over the planet including the USSo this same FOXCONN that is formerly known as Hon Hai? The one with the corporate address in china? Having a HQ in a country doesn’t make it owned by that country. I also said a MAJORITY of iphones and ipads made in china. I have no doubt there are plenty of them rolling out of taiwan. View attachment 7493312
Truth goes down hard. Even white collar jobs are no longer safe. I was VP of engineering at a Bay Area company. Try to get EE engineering positions filled without using foreign engineers on work permits. US Citizens applied, were interviewed and given offers but they were generally not accepted. US applicants had out of line expectations with respect to compensation. An EE with an MSEE and 5 years of experience with XILINX or ALTERA FPGAs wanted $200K min and stock options.Yup that about 75% of the problem for high paying jobs.
For manual labor / blue collar stuff Americans don’t even show up for the interview/sign on the street.
The company is forced to create a process that uses work visas ..if not the position cannot be filled.
Truth goes down hard. Even white collar jobs are no longer safe. I was VP of engineering at a Bay Area company. Try to get EE engineering positions filled without using foreign engineers on work permits. US Citizens applied, were interviewed and given offers but they were generally not accepted. US applicants had out of line expectations with respect to compensation. An EE with an MSEE and 5 years of experience with XILINX or ALTERA FPGAs wanted $200K min and stock options.
If you're a company like Amazon, FB, Google or Apple, those compensation levels are easy. For smaller companies like I was employed by, not so much. We couldn't compete with the larger Bay Area companies so we were forced to look at applicants from India mostly.
The funny thing is that the engineers from India had stronger work ethics and produced higher quality results than most of their peers.
We made our own bed...it is a crying shame
Shit sign me up. Besides the fuckin the niece part, I’ll take all the other awesome shit that comes with being the black sheep in a millionaire family.
Hunter Biden has nothing on me when it comes to plowing thru lines off strippers assesDont forget all the blow.
One company I worked for ran into the same issues with disclosures.I work in the power semiconductor industry. I have a number of customers that wanted to sell their products into China. "The market was YUGE !". There was (and, I assume still is) the requirement from the Chinese government that the American manufacturer must provide all drawings, bills of material, subcomponent manufacturer's information to them before they will allow that American manufacturer to export their products to China.
Most customers did. This was about three or four years ago. Care to guess how much product those customers of mine are exporting to China now ? Would it come as any surprise to you that almost identical knock offs of my customer's products are starting to show up here from China ?
I work in the power semiconductor industry. I have a number of customers that wanted to sell their products into China. "The market was YUGE !". There was (and, I assume still is) the requirement from the Chinese government that the American manufacturer must provide all drawings, bills of material, subcomponent manufacturer's information to them before they will allow that American manufacturer to export their products to China.
Most customers did. This was about three or four years ago. Care to guess how much product those customers of mine are exporting to China now ? Would it come as any surprise to you that almost identical knock offs of my customer's products are starting to show up here from China ?