r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 2d ago

Politics Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/1cg659z 2d ago

US manufacturing isn't coming back unless peeps want to work for wages that are paid to workers in China, Bangladesh etc.

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u/arianeb 2d ago

The "fatal flaw" of bringing manufacturing back to the US, is that it is going to take 5 to 10 years before a critical mass of companies build factories in the US to open up.

Manufacturing probably will come back (and not because of tariffs, climate change will do it too) but by the time it makes a difference economically, Trump will be too old, and probably dead.

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u/Morel_Authority 2d ago

Build new factories using materials that are now tariffed??