Roll up your sleeves, reshoring is happening and fast

#1

Today a press conference was given about the Trump Tariffs. The governor in San Juan looked happy, apparently the pharmaceutical sector will be expanding operations. I say expanding because big pharma has been manufacturing here for 80 years now, closed down a few plants but never left completely. San Juan has three engineering schools and graduates hundreds of people every year. In other words, there is skilled labor in biotechnology.

The problem in San Juan Bautista is the cost of electricity. Although big pharma have their own electric plants, energy costs are always taken into consideration. So big pharma in San Juan and also Barbie dolls, Governor announced toy manufacturing is headed our way, there is local investment for that industry.

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#2

Great news and good to share with grumpy office friends. Thanks for sharing.
I hope mainland can get more industrial things brought back for housing and hotels like furniture, wallcovering, flooring. That is big business.

#3

Interesting that you mentioned furniture, this is something coming from the physical medium. My family had a 200 year old furniture business. Passed from my great grandfather, to my grandfather and to my dad. My grandfather was a genius. A professor in mathematics, painter, farmer, and a furniture maker. His designs were in classical Spanish style. A dinner table, chair, sofa could easily be a museum piece or a family heirloom. The family business went down the tubes in the 90’s. We had the workshop and several stores, not only did we sell our furniture but also furniture made in America. The family still has the workshop and the last time we gathered the possibility of re-opening the family business was discussed.

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#4

Do it! Bring back real manufacturing from Asia.

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#5

Here is the problem Chis, will the policy of protective tariffs hold? Will these policies be implemented long term? As for the people in San Juan, we are willing to suffer short term pain, pay a little more but there has to be long term consistency. I see many Americans panicking and going Julius Cesar on Trump. This has to end, Americans need to cross the Rubicon, there is work to be done. For example, over here business people are confident that toy manufacturing can be snatch from the Chinese. Is plastic, we make it, robotics are being purchased. Send us the Barbie schematics to make these toys for Christmas. My point is there has to be long term consistency in policy to make this work. Quiet frankly I’m seeing too many American’s with a victim defeatist complex.

#6

Absolutely! People just don’t get it. It’s time to roll the sleeves up and get back to manufacturing. I see and hear it here in Australia the whingeing and crying and the moaning that Trump has imposed tariffs but no one sees a bigger picture. We can should bring back manufacturing to all our countries. Such a scope is huge and it will take more than one term of a president or a prime minister to get it back on track. But the globalists don’t want that. They would prefer to see long-term-unemployment, population starvationand unaffordable housing so long as they can continue to line there big pockets.

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#7

That is true but I think that is largely not their fault.
Most people rely on legacy and MSM for their information and when the information is always bias and telling them everything is hopeless bad racist fascist then of course they will feel defeatist, or even get angry and bite the hand that is trying to help them. Sad but true.