To manufacture 140,000 pairs of shoes
One rule for Them, another rule for Us.
Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods won’t touch Ivanka Trump’s foreign-made products for her fashion line.
While Trump rails at Harley-Davidson motorcycles for moving some production to Europe to dodge EU tariffs, the first daughter and senior White House adviser has never manufactured a single product for her Ivanka Trump brand on American soil.
Because it’s so much cheaper to outsource manufacturing to countries where wages are even lower than they are here.
Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts. Products spared include those manufactured by his daughter.
That means Chengdu Kameido Shoes in Sichuan province can continue to supply shoes for the Ivanka Trump brand as it has in the past. It’s currently bidding for a new contract to manufacture 140,000 pairs of shoes for Trump’s company, a spokesman told The South China Morning Post.
I’m sure there’s some convincing explanation that has to do with a technical skill that no one in the US has but millions of people in Sichuan province rejoice in.
Until January 2017 all of Ivanka Trump’s products were made in factories in China and Hong Kong, research director Chris Rogers at Panjiva, a global trade data tracking company headquartered in New York, told Politico. Since then, some manufacturing has apparently been moved to other overseas factories in Indonesia, South Korea and Vietnam.
Only people in East Asia know how to make vulgar shoes for low wages. It’s a very geographically-specific skill.
Other enterprises and workers in the U.S., meanwhile, are already feeling the heat from a trade war. China’s retaliatory tariffs have targeted U.S. seafood, soybeans, dairy products, cars, apples, whiskey, pet food and cigarettes, among several other products. Farmers are fearful they won’t be able to sell products they had earmarked for China. They also worry that suppliers from other countries will pick up the valuable market — for good — that they have worked for years to cultivate.
“Soybeans are the top agriculture export for the United States, and China is the top market for purchasing those exports,” Iowa soybean grower John Heisdorffer said in a statement. “The math is simple. You tax soybean exports at 25 percent, and you have serious damage to U.S. farmers.”
Despite the president’s mantra to “buy American and hire American” the Trump family retains major business operations overseas, and the Trump Organization continues to manufacture most Trump products in foreign factories.
Why it’s almost as if they’re morals-free tacky money-grubbing profit-seeking lying thieving grifters.
Well get fucked Iowa farmers; you reap what you sow…
Yeah, that’s right. Trump made no secret about his plans for tariffs during the campaign, and Iowa went for Trump. Cosmic justice? Unfortunately, everyone will have to suffer if there is a problem with the breadbasket, because we all pay for food. And it will hurt those the least able to pay worse than anyone else.
Trump also proposed cuts in farm subsidies. These guys voted against themselves, and against the rest of us, just because they hated “foreigners”.
Cutting farm subsidies is actually a pretty good move (at least for corn)… Stopped clock and all that…
I don’t actually disagree with you Blood Knight…but Iowa farmers do, as do Nebraska farmers, but they voted fro the orange one anyway.
When you’re electing a kamikaze pilot to fly an airliner carrying people you don’t like very much, it’s best to check that you haven’t booked a flight on the same plane.
Which evaporates when the shoemakers enter America. They’re unable to make shoes expensively, maybe it’s the low wages and poor working conditions that keeps them at the cutting edge of robotically assembling shoes in a way nobody properly fed and treated with respect can do. Really, IT is doing those poor brown people a favour, you shouldn’t be so mean to her.
Christ, some of you Americans really want a royal family, don’t you? You can have ours if you want, it’s shit.
Great, now I’m imagining one of our royal types marrying IT. The part of me that revels in misrule says bring it on. The neglected part of me that cares about things wants to cut the thought out of my head with a fork in case it makes it happen.
Now I’m wondering whether we spend more money on the idiocy of our royal family than you do on the idiocy of yours. I don’t like either answer.
So, speaking of Trumpian Corruption:
NBC has learned that, while the SCOTUS was debating Trump’s Muslim Ban, Kennedy was in close talks with the Trump Administration about his successor, if he were to retire. His preferred successor? Kavanaugh, who got the public nod last night.
So, while the White House had a major case before the SCOTUS (not to mention the public union case, which, while centered on Illinois, was going to set policy across the country), one of the justices was seeking a commitment from the White House. How can anyone, and I mean ANYONE, not look at this and see a quid pro quo in action?