(04-04-2025, 09:22 AM)Jag149 Wrote:

(04-03-2025, 11:04 PM)They homebiscuit Wrote: If that's his game plan. This could also be a temporary ploy to even the tables a bit. Unfortunately, no one knows his end game which profoundly affects American traders. If Trump wants to play the long game of returning production to the U.S., our manufacturers will need time to do so. At a minimum 3 years for some industries, which will also require shouldering significant debt to build their factories. However, if he's only playing the short game, American traders can simply ride it out. So now they're in a conundrum: To ride it out or risk the process of building factories.

Trump doesn't want to tip his hand, but he must eventually, or he'll lose the confidence of American businesses and consumers.

I was the inbound logistics supplier for the renovation of the Buick assembly plant in Flint Michigan in 1984. That was GM's first just in time assembly plant that delivered to point of use docks. The average stay of material in the facility was 4 hours. They tore the entire assembly line out and redesigned it. I began in February and the facility was up and running October 2. GM has 2 idle plants in Flint. The old Buick one I mentioned and a Truck plant. My point is it doesn't have to take 3 years for autos.

Setting that problem aside, you're left with the fact that if running that factory was more economical than running one in Mexico or Korea, they would already be doing it.  Consumers will be paying more for the products produced at that re-opened factory in Flint than they used to pay for the nearly identical products produced at a factory in Busan.

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