Beyond food is anythng 100% made in the USA

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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.)

*chocolate flavored confection

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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

That hasn't built a single foundry and never will.

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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.

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.

You should do an AMA about what you buy. 5 years ago I started a thread and got very few suggestions. I have bought some American made clothes but it’s almost impossible. And American made cars are very limited as well, if you don’t want a truck. (My minivan was made in Canada.). I am redoing my kitchen and did buy American made cabinets, counters, tile and (I think) appliances but I know that a lot of that is made from imported products.

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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

That hasn't built a single foundry and never will.

Isn’t this Phoenix facility one of them?
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/arizona-semiconductor-hub-intel-tsmc/724935/

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Even food, if you account for inputs like fertilizers, pesticides, feed, farming machinery, etc. doubt that even food will come out to 100%.

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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

That hasn't built a single foundry and never will.

Isn’t this Phoenix facility one of them?
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/arizona-semiconductor-hub-intel-tsmc/724935/

It's not built. TSMC is dragging their feet. They got the grant, that's all they wanted.

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Anonymous wrote:Even food relies on imported inputs like fertilizers and equipment. Also imported (undocumented) workers who are going away so labor costs will be going up, if farms can even hire enough. So, food prices will go up too. And this doesn't even factor in farms that may go out of business when they lose export markets.

Most planting and harvesting workers are not undocumented. They are in the US legally but temporarily. They are paid very little for specially skilled work (not anybody can do it) and work in crappy conditions but please don't mistake that for being undocumented.
People working in animal husbandry and slaughterhouses are more likely to be undocumented.

Many are undocumented. Migrant workers who pick fruits and vegetables are virtually all undocumented. The service industry has a large portion of undocumented workers.

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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?

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.

It's a great idea if your goal is to try to find some way to hurt other citizens with more education, who you think are thinking they are better than you -- to "take them down a peg" or "show them what it's like" for some sort of self-satisfaction.

It's a horrible idea if you want to improve the country overall, or if you care about the overall outcomes for all Americans (other than the wealthiest 0.05%), usually including yourself.