Anonymous
05/15/2025 14:11
Subject: Re:Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Interesting data on Chinese imports....unlike European goods, most of the money stay in the US!
"When you buy a new t-shirt in Manhattan, some of the money goes to the manufacturer in China, and some of the money goes to the US company that sells the t-shirt.
Looking at the distribution of expenditures on imports shows that for China, 56% of the money paid stays in the US, and 44% goes to China, see chart below.
The bottom line is that more than half of the money paid for US imports from China stays in the US.
Because it's where US industries outsource their manufacturing, and Europe isn't. In apparel manufacturing is usually at most 25% of the purchase price and that is largely material costs. Companies that do finish in the US often still import materials. Many US jobs are contingent on oversees manufacturing.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 13:28
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And our shelves will be empty in about 6 weeks. Then what?
Then Americans realize how beholden we were to China and realize we sold ourselves out as a country a generation ago courtesy of Ivy League MBA’s running corporate America who enriched themselves while sending all of our industry and manufacturing jobs overseas.
Payback time.
Yeah, them college boys and their fancy pants ideas about moving to service based economy because we became a power house nation that values higher education. Fk em! We don’t need em. We need factories that make jingoistic platitudes! And we need to bust all unions so kids can work there!
It’s never NOT amusing to watch the MAGAs punch themselves in the balls for Trump, who would gladly have them jailed or killed for the most of minor things if he could get away with it.
It’s like watching children insist that they aren’t tired as they are in the midst of a tantrum.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 13:05
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And our shelves will be empty in about 6 weeks. Then what?
Then Americans realize how beholden we were to China and realize we sold ourselves out as a country a generation ago courtesy of Ivy League MBA’s running corporate America who enriched themselves while sending all of our industry and manufacturing jobs overseas.
Payback time.
Because that is what the GOP designed with creating NAFTA.
Bill Clinton wasn’t the GOP.
But Reagan and Bush were.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 13:04
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And our shelves will be empty in about 6 weeks. Then what?
Then Americans realize how beholden we were to China and realize we sold ourselves out as a country a generation ago courtesy of Ivy League MBA’s running corporate America who enriched themselves while sending all of our industry and manufacturing jobs overseas.
Payback time.
Because that is what the GOP designed with creating NAFTA.
Clinton pushed NAFTA.
Reagan started NAFTA
Bush made the deal
Clinton signed it
Learn some history.
I'm old enough to remember when all that happened. I'm in my 50s.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-1/nafta-comes-into-effect-us-mexico-canada-trade
Ronald Reagan was the first U.S. president to propose a trilateral free trade agreement between the nations of North America. His successor, George H.W. Bush, opened negotiations with Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, which Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney later joined. The goal was to do away with most tariffs and barriers to the movement of people and products across the three countries' borders. The debate over ratification of the treaty was heated in all three countries, with critics warning that it would have adverse affects on the ability of workers to organize and, as a result, depress wages. There were also environmental concerns, which were addressed by a side deal. All three nations ratified NAFTA in the end, and President Bill Clinton signed it into law on December 8, 1993. it took effect on New Year's Day 1994.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 13:02
Subject: Re:Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Interesting data on Chinese imports....unlike European goods, most of the money stay in the US!
"When you buy a new t-shirt in Manhattan, some of the money goes to the manufacturer in China, and some of the money goes to the US company that sells the t-shirt.
Looking at the distribution of expenditures on imports shows that for China, 56% of the money paid stays in the US, and 44% goes to China, see chart below.
The bottom line is that more than half of the money paid for US imports from China stays in the US.
"When you buy a new t-shirt in Manhattan, some of the money goes to the manufacturer in China, and some of the money goes to the US company that sells the t-shirt.
Looking at the distribution of expenditures on imports shows that for China, 56% of the money paid stays in the US, and 44% goes to China, see chart below.
The bottom line is that more than half of the money paid for US imports from China stays in the US.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 12:55
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh no, no more $5 dollar pants and dresses made by schild slave labor from shein and temu
Take a wild guess who relies on these cheap clothes. Not households like mine with an annual income of over $400,000.
Do you know how many tons of fast fashion made in China ends up in landfills or dumped in the high desert of some South American countries? Also, do you know how much carbon and chemical pollution fast fashion creates?
We also have tons of clothes available through thrift stores that goes unsold every year.
Oh okay, that’s a good solution. Thrift stores. Thanks.
This may be the one good thing that comes from tariffs. They slowing down of trends and fast fashion, because most of us won't be able to afford to buy new clothes and shoes any more.
+1
Except for the very poor in the US, most of us have too much stuff.
It's just that the Americans who actually work for Walmart won't be able to afford much food and medicine.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 12:48
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh no, no more $5 dollar pants and dresses made by schild slave labor from shein and temu
Take a wild guess who relies on these cheap clothes. Not households like mine with an annual income of over $400,000.
Do you know how many tons of fast fashion made in China ends up in landfills or dumped in the high desert of some South American countries? Also, do you know how much carbon and chemical pollution fast fashion creates?
We also have tons of clothes available through thrift stores that goes unsold every year.
Oh okay, that’s a good solution. Thrift stores. Thanks.
This may be the one good thing that comes from tariffs. They slowing down of trends and fast fashion, because most of us won't be able to afford to buy new clothes and shoes any more.
+1
Anonymous
05/15/2025 12:24
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Do you buy garlic from China?
Probably, because the cheaper garlic at the grocery store isn't labeled.
I only know it's not from China if I buy it from a local farmer.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 12:24
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh no, no more $5 dollar pants and dresses made by schild slave labor from shein and temu
Take a wild guess who relies on these cheap clothes. Not households like mine with an annual income of over $400,000.
Do you know how many tons of fast fashion made in China ends up in landfills or dumped in the high desert of some South American countries? Also, do you know how much carbon and chemical pollution fast fashion creates?
We also have tons of clothes available through thrift stores that goes unsold every year.
Oh okay, that’s a good solution. Thrift stores. Thanks.
This may be the one good thing that comes from tariffs. They slowing down of trends and fast fashion, because most of us won't be able to afford to buy new clothes and shoes any more.
Anonymous
05/15/2025 11:32
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Do you buy garlic from China?
Anonymous
05/15/2025 07:34
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Rogue Communications Devices Found in Chinese Solar Panel Power Inverters.....
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1EMfHP
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1EMfHP
Anonymous
05/13/2025 20:59
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And our shelves will be empty in about 6 weeks. Then what?
Then Americans realize how beholden we were to China and realize we sold ourselves out as a country a generation ago courtesy of Ivy League MBA’s running corporate America who enriched themselves while sending all of our industry and manufacturing jobs overseas.
Payback time.
Yeah, them college boys and their fancy pants ideas about moving to service based economy because we became a power house nation that values higher education. Fk em! We don’t need em. We need factories that make jingoistic platitudes! And we need to bust all unions so kids can work there!
Anonymous
05/13/2025 20:56
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh no, no more $5 dollar pants and dresses made by schild slave labor from shein and temu
You can have 3 pairs of socks, not 30.
Or, hear me out, you can have 10 pair of socks ethically made by non-slaves and children.
Say like Darn Tough socks made in Vermont.
https://darntough.com/pages/about
This is America, if that company gets any bigger private equity vultures will buy it and loot the whole thing. But pat yourself on the back you have temporary solutions to sock buying.
Anonymous
05/13/2025 20:51
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh no, no more $5 dollar pants and dresses made by schild slave labor from shein and temu
Take a wild guess who relies on these cheap clothes. Not households like mine with an annual income of over $400,000.
Do you know how many tons of fast fashion made in China ends up in landfills or dumped in the high desert of some South American countries? Also, do you know how much carbon and chemical pollution fast fashion creates?
We also have tons of clothes available through thrift stores that goes unsold every year.
Oh okay, that’s a good solution. Thrift stores. Thanks.
Anonymous
05/13/2025 20:32
Subject: Chinese import volume to California ports down 30%
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh no, no more $5 dollar pants and dresses made by schild slave labor from shein and temu
Take a wild guess who relies on these cheap clothes. Not households like mine with an annual income of over $400,000.
Yes, you do. All of your goods are cheaply made elsewhere, no matter how much you pay for the branding. Let's
not forget that to the hyper rich that run the show, we are all the help. Just because the magas are dumb doesn't mean that we have to be dumb, too.