Job exporter Trump is part of the problem
… because these jobs are not likely to come back. In fact, even China is outsourcing now!
Click here for reuse options!US presidential candidate Donald Trump has pledged to bring long lost American manufacturing jobs back from China. But he may be too late — even for products that bear his family name.
A Chinese company that makes shoes for his daughter’s fashion line is moving production to Africa, where labour is much cheaper.
The billionaire tycoon has frequently accused China of stealing US jobs through unfair trade practices and currency manipulation, while simultaneously relying on the country to make Trump-branded goods.
But the kind of work that goes into making such products may never return to America, the president of major footwear producer Huajian Group told AFP.
“Some manufacturers can’t even survive in China anymore,” Zhang Huarong said, speaking in his office in the southern factory hub of Dongguan.
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His company has made about 100,000 pairs of Ivanka Trump-branded shoes over the years, according to spokesman Liu Shiyuan.In August it filled an order for 20,000 — just weeks after Trump accepted the Republican nomination, with a speech vowing to bring jobs back to the US.
It is a goal Trump plans to accomplish by imposing a 45 percent tariff on Chinese-made goods, but his focus could be misplaced: Zhang has become one of a growing number of Chinese manufacturers expanding to Africa and Southeast Asia in search of lower production costs.
Copyright 2016 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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StoneyCurtisll October 6th, 2016 at 11:17
But, but, but….
He is going to bring the jobs back to America..
You know, the ones he sent over seas…
Now poor people in America, who make under minium wage can work part time making trinkets for trump to sell….
StoneyCurtisll October 6th, 2016 at 11:58
Anyone thinking of voting for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein this election..
Think of the consequences of you protest vote..
Look what the state Main got from voting for alternative candidates…
They got Paul LePage… (Trump before trump was trump)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB1bSJB3n10
bpollen October 7th, 2016 at 03:36
LePage is the Beta version of Trump… buggy as hell and prone to crash.
Ned Nutley October 6th, 2016 at 15:00
During a recent speech in PA. Trump said “craftsmen
and tradespeople and factory workers have seen jobs
they love shift thousands of miles away” now it’s time
for people to take back their future, –but when it comes
to his own businesses, Trump has for years relied on
cheap labor in overseas factories to make clothing for
his line of men’s suits, shirts and ties and sold under
the Trump label at Amazon and recently Macy’s,
remember, supporting nations that enslave children
for their manufacturing base so our people can see a
reduction in prices, is part of the GOP race to the bottom.
Robo Rubio October 6th, 2016 at 18:44
*** Per Newsweek, CNN, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Salon, Mother Jones and other outlets:
Trump blew through nearly $50 million dollars by the time he was 33. He had to be bailed out by his father to the tune of almost $8 million dollars. Trump was again on shaky ground in the late 80’s and in 1995 he was in the hole for almost $1 billion dollars.
Trump paid no taxes from 1995 until 2012, and yet had the gall to tweet in 2013 that America is crumbling because 49.5% of Americans pay no taxes.
Trump was sure one to talk about not paying taxes! Not.
Gary Parillo October 7th, 2016 at 04:03
That shows the out of control greed of the multi-national corporations.There lust for money and profits for the top moneyholders (trump) drives them to remove production from one slave wage nation,to an even more oppressive slave wage nation.All for as much profit as they can squeeze out of the backs of oppressed people.That is crony capitalism at its finest,and that is despot donnys world.Any of his supporters who think differently are fooling themselves,as they are being fooled,by the master fool.The 1f#@#$ing percent are all the same.Always will be.They care about nothing and no one but themselves.Elect Trump and that is what,that is all,you will get.He will not bring jobs back to America,and he knows that!