Beyond food is anythng 100% made in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, many things, here’s a list.

https://www.usalovelist.com/category/by-article-type/source-list/

Wow! What a great list! I’m definitely shopping American now!

Where is the bike company sourcing their materials? Is the cotton grown in USA?

We are a global economy.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many unused/underutilized factories here that could be put back in use.

So are you investing in one?

Who will work there?

When will the factories be up and running and what will those jobs pay? Will they pay a living wage?

Will Americans be willing to pay much, much more for products the factory produces than we pay currently for goods made in China?

My guess is no. New Balance already sells a “made in America” line (which is only 70% domestic value). They are generally about 2x the price of their other shoes - like $200/pair and that’s not even fully domestic. Can’t see a ton of people able and willing to buy them l

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Listen to this podcast and then tell me it won't take years to bring most manufacturing back onshore:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id1614253637?i=1000699197820

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, many things, here’s a list.

https://www.usalovelist.com/category/by-article-type/source-list/

Wow! What a great list! I’m definitely shopping American now!

Where is the bike company sourcing their materials? Is the cotton grown in USA?

We are a global economy.

Go look for yourself if you want a specific item. Read descriptions, ask questions, act like an American that cares about America. Or don’t, nobody cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Every small business bootstrapping products from a garage is going to be in immediate peril. There’s no such thing as a domestic supply chain.

What an idiotic Anti-American thing to say. Do you even live here? Are you tuning in from Russia? Trying to prevent that cash flow from stopping for Trump’s main man?

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With the modern global economy, goods are actually cheaper than they used to be. Americans can afford to buy more and save more (even with our purchasing power decreasing the last 4-5 years).

It would not be good for most of us to return to 75 years ago when most goods we bought were American made and cost a significantly higher percentage of our earnings.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer is very little.
So take for instance the rare clothes made in USA (super hard to find). Maybe they are buying US cotton. Even so, doubtful they are buying US made thread or zippers or snaps. And their sewing machines probably have at least components made abroad, if not the whole machine.

Or Fiestaware—made in the U.S. I don’t know where they source the ceramic clay—maybe US? But I’m sure they get some dyes and maybe glaze components from abroad and probably the same issue with machinery.

These are the examples I can think of that are probably mostly made in U.S. Electronics and appliances and stuff are much harder because, even when partially made here, small components are almost never made here since it is so much cheaper to make abroad.

So, now it has to be made in USA, on machines made in the USA, with material made in the USA?

Fixed cost usually doesn't contribute much to the final product price.

I think OPs question was about price increases. So you may buy hersheys chocolate made in PA but if they are importing cocoa and vanilla that is subject to tariffs, those prices will increase and they will potentially lay off or furlough American workers as consumer demand drops. That’s true for basically every product made in America. It’s unusual to be able to fully source from America. Back in the pandemic, a lot of American factories stood idle because they couldn’t get certain key components from abroad. Were all just so interconnected now — you can’t unmake the omelette.

Hershey’s chocolate is not made in PA. It’s only packaged here. Made in Mexico and Canada.

Not true. Some lines are still made in the unionized factories in Pennsylvania. The bars you use for snores, Rolos, kisses and I think the Reese’s cups all still made in PA. At some point they had moved the bars to South America but moved it back due to shipping issues. Other lines are indeed made abroad. They are actually one of the few lines still making the actual chocolate here in U.S. — many others do the chocolate abroad and the molding/dipping her in US (that was true of Russell stover but now they might make everything abroad — Russel stover is terrible, don’t buy them anymore if you care about labor.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are many unused/underutilized factories here that could be put back in use.

So are you investing in one?

Who will work there?

Maybe the govt workers that got laid off? Remember when biden told auto workers to learn to code? Maybe the govt workers should learn to weld?

Yep. Retrain the cancer researchers and park rangers to weld. America is failing.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many unused/underutilized factories here that could be put back in use.

Yeah just whip up a chip foundry in an old sock factory from the 70s.

We have chip foundries in the US.

Thanks to Biden's Chip Act

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Anonymous wrote:Tons of abandoned Car Factories in Detroit

With more to come

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Even food isn’t technically all made in the usa. The packaging, vehicles and all the parts for the vehicles required to harvest and transport, probably all the things used to plant, treat, etc. the food are not 100% American sourced.

This is going to rain so much pain down upon Americans. We need to take to the streets every single day. He is destroying our economy, our way of life, AND the world economy. It’s not okay. Call out people who are acting like it’ll blow over and life is normal. It is not normal.

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so why aren't the MAGAs setting up manufacturing facilities if that's what they want to do?

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Anonymous wrote:Every small business bootstrapping products from a garage is going to be in immediate peril. There’s no such thing as a domestic supply chain.

What an idiotic Anti-American thing to say. Do you even live here? Are you tuning in from Russia? Trying to prevent that cash flow from stopping for Trump’s main man?

YOU are the idiot. it's not about being anti-American. DP here.

There is NOTHING supply chain wise that is 100% US. NOTHING.

If you sell food grown in the US, you may ship it in a container sourced with materials from abroad.

Let's face it - the US is not manufacturing oriented and things are much more $$$ when made in USA.

If you are so pro US - I would like for you to buy EVERYTHING you can "based" in the US and let us know when you are broke and can't afford it anymore. Who in their right mind buys something 2x more $$ because it's "based" in the US. I guarantee you that if any US product is cheaper than another one, it's because somewhere in their supply chain, they spent less money outsourcing from abroad and can sell the item cheaper than their counterpart. There's no other way to price down otherwise. People like you are who are uneducated and ignorant are what is wrong with the US. In 2025, we live in an interconnected world.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every small business bootstrapping products from a garage is going to be in immediate peril. There’s no such thing as a domestic supply chain.

What an idiotic Anti-American thing to say. Do you even live here? Are you tuning in from Russia? Trying to prevent that cash flow from stopping for Trump’s main man?

YOU are the idiot. it's not about being anti-American. DP here.

There is NOTHING supply chain wise that is 100% US. NOTHING.

If you sell food grown in the US, you may ship it in a container sourced with materials from abroad.

Let's face it - the US is not manufacturing oriented and things are much more $$$ when made in USA.

If you are so pro US - I would like for you to buy EVERYTHING you can "based" in the US and let us know when you are broke and can't afford it anymore. Who in their right mind buys something 2x more $$ because it's "based" in the US. I guarantee you that if any US product is cheaper than another one, it's because somewhere in their supply chain, they spent less money outsourcing from abroad and can sell the item cheaper than their counterpart. There's no other way to price down otherwise. People like you are who are uneducated and ignorant are what is wrong with the US. In 2025, we live in an interconnected world.

I have done that for 15 years. 95% of what I buy is US sourced. I’m not broke. I don’t buy garbage I don’t need. I buy things to last. You keep buying your imported garbage. More power to you.