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"Trump ruined Christmas" is going to be reality in next 1-2 months if he does not back down. American companies start sending orders for Christmas soon. Chinese companies must start making them.

db48x · 8h ago

Why do Chinese companies have to make them?

nabla9 · 4h ago

Value chains don't radically change in few months. Building factories takes time, training people takes time.

cruzcampo · 8h ago

Who else will? You? https://futurism.com/china-mocking-ai-video-americans-sweats...

db48x · 7h ago

When prices change, the equilibrium changes. Currently most production happens in China because it’s cheapest there. But if the prices rise, suddenly it’s not the cheapest place to manufacture things any more. And there are literally a hundred other countries where things can and have been made inexpensively. In the short term I see prices rising and production shifting more and more out of China. In the medium term there are even new factories being built. For example: <https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/johnson-john...>

cruzcampo · 7h ago

It's not just cost. https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-d...

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