Are the new Tariffs on Goods from China going to affect prices on Pool cues?

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maha said:
and what if and when and we have a war with one of these countries like china where we get almost all our medicines and most products from. and they stop sending us anything. you know what would happen to the price of things. right thru the roof.

we need to be self sufficient for all important things at all costs. if you dont see that then you think only short term.
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Many years ago when it was the heart of TV's and PC's there wasn't a CRT made in the US! We had let corporations give away our high tech building it offshore too. Purest stupidity and shortsightedness on the part of our government. Very few left in government that remember WWII and how critical industry was that swapped from making peacetime sewing machines and typewriters to wartime weapons.

The US needs to move hugely back towards self sufficiency. It will cost some short term pain to consumers used to buying cheap mostly junk from overseas. I'll take the pain of higher costs to see "made in the USA" more often. As for the cost of produce and grass mowed, I can pay a little more for that too. I favor cutting off the head of the snake. Fine the employers of illegals enough it is cost prohibitive to do it with jail terms possible for egregious or repeat offenders.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Many years ago when it was the heart of TV's and PC's there wasn't a CRT made in the US! We had let corporations give away our high tech building it offshore too. Purest stupidity and shortsightedness on the part of our government. Very few left in government that remember WWII and how critical industry was that swapped from making peacetime sewing machines and typewriters to wartime weapons.

The US needs to move hugely back towards self sufficiency. It will cost some short term pain to consumers used to buying cheap mostly junk from overseas. I'll take the pain of higher costs to see "made in the USA" more often. As for the cost of produce and grass mowed, I can pay a little more for that too. I favor cutting off the head of the snake. Fine the employers of illegals enough it is cost prohibitive to do it with jail terms possible for egregious or repeat offenders.

Hu
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We would all love to see that. But those employers are the ones getting the law makers elected and then playing golf together on Sundays.

Hell, I'd love to see laws made where someone is more than welcome to have their products made wherever they want. But.... You have to pay the employees whatever you'd pay them here (including health benefits) and the factories have to be held to OSHA safety standards. Ideally, this would be done in phases with state critical items (tech and medical come to mind) being legislated in that manner first.
 
skogstokig said:
i have a 100-0 trade deficit with my local grocery store. they never bought anything from me



and workers. which one of you are gonna sit down and sew pool gloves 8-10 hours a day?
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We have immigrants here. The pro-immigration people have always viewed them as a workforce.

Americans not wanting to sew is false.
 
Badpenguin said:
Well, no, it actually has to do more with actual real things happening to me because of this nonsense. Like my retirement losing a sizable chunk and I might have to delay my retirement for a few years. I don't even watch MSNBC or CNN and haven't in years.

But nice how you have refuted no argument whatsoever.
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Poor baby
 
billiards_watch said:
We have immigrants here. The pro-immigration people have always viewed them as a workforce.

Americans not wanting to sew is false.
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I remember up until the late 90s there was a place in the next county to where I live that sewed sports jerseys, shorts, etc. They went out of business because no one would buy their product because they could order it for less than half price overseas. I think they were there in that location for 70 years or something.
 
thats exactly what tarriffs are meant to do.

but to compete with cheap you have to show yours is better and worth the extra.

if you go out of business from a catastrophe that's a bad break but going out over a long time shows bad business .
 
curlyscues said:
I might have missed it but, nobody seemed to point out the fact that most of the woods used by cue makers come from other countries raising the price of cues made in the u.s. as well.

M.C.
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I mentioned it, maybe in another thread. However, I don't think anyone is using freshly purchased wood. That will cause the increases due to imported wood to be a soft curve if they have to purchase from somewhere with increased tariffs. The increase in the cost of exotic woods will still be small compared to the price of a custom cue.

Hu
 
nobody mentioned your gas price has gone down. wont that be more saving than any cue products??

and hopefully taxes this year which are proposed?
 
No need for people here to have meltdowns.

We will do just fine.

These are cues we're talking about here. Cheap ones at that. I can see why people are mad at paying double for shit.
 
Jimmy_Betmore said:
I work in procurement for a manufacturing plant and without question, staffing is by far one of our biggest challenges. And we pay considerably more than minimum wage, even starting out. Hell, we've got higher tenure guys cracking six figures with overtime. Getting a location, bringing in equipment, and setting everything up is relatively easy. But trying to find anyone who will actually show up to work every day and not cause problems, particularly on second or third shift, is borderline impossible. Having said all that, I'd stop short of saying the whole "nobody wants to work anymore." Like most things, it's more complicated than that. One big issue is that we've spend the past forty plus years telling kids in school that they have to go to college and not to go into manufacturing because all of those jobs are going overseas. So that's what they're doing. They're going to college and avoiding manufacturing.

So, yeah. Theoretically, we could bring manufacturing back to The States. But it's going to take a long time to fix a problem that took a long time to create. And it's going to HAVE to be financially viable and rewarding to any company that does it. Otherwise it just doesn't make sense.
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As my old boss used to say:
If we could just get rid of the people, this would run smoothly.
 
Black-Balled said:
As my old boss used to say:
If we could just get rid of the people, this would run smoothly.
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I've joked for years that our plant will eventually be ran by a single dwarf. Barring an amputee, that's the "least amount of person" we could get it down to.
 
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