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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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.)[/quote]

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