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American Manufacturers Overwhelmed With Orders After Trump’s Tariff Crackdown On China

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American manufacturers are seeing a surge in demand as President Donald Trump’s tariffs force companies to reconsider doing business in China.

Trump’s tariffs, including a 145% levy on Chinese goods, are causing American-made products to be more competitive in the market. As a result, many small and medium manufacturers are experiencing a surge in demand and are preparing to ramp up production and hire new workers.

Jergens Inc., a midwestern toolmaker with less than 500 employees, says it’s “going like gangbusters” trying to keep up with demand, The Wall Street Journal reported. They are seeing an influx of orders from customers trying to avoid import tariffs, along with steady defense-related demand.

“We are running 24 hours a day, seven days a week” said Jergens president Jack Schron, according to the Journal. “We are swamped.”

Grand River Rubber & Plastics, a plastics and rubber manufacturer in Ohio, says customers that once offshored to China are reversing course, the Journal noted. Two buyers who left years ago returned within days of each other and two new oil filter manufacturers have already placed orders. The company’s new business could amount to $5 million annually, roughly 10% of Grand River’s revenue.

The spike in new business reported by many American manufacturers coincides with a sharp decrease in Chinese manufacturing.  When Trump announced the tariffs last month, he predicted American businesses and consumers would both benefit.

“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base,” Trump has said. “We will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers. And ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers.”

Even as the president insists prices will fall, economists and politicians warn his tariffs could sharply raise costs for American consumers, CNBC reported. However, executives at SafeSource Direct, a Louisiana-based medical products manufacturer, say prices are likely to decline as domestic production ramps up, according to the Journal.

SafeSource recently increased the number of production lines from two to eight, each making over 20,000 rubber gloves an hour. As new operations become more efficient, they expect costs to decrease significantly.

“We think we can get extremely close to Asian prices,” said Steve Mott, a partner with the company, as reported by the Journal.

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Floyd Buford

Contributor.

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Trump Moves To Punish Outsourced Film Productions With Massive Tariff, Citing ‘National Security’

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President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will impose a 100% tariff on all films produced outside the U.S., citing national security concerns and a desire to revive America’s “dying” film industry.

Trump authorized the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce to begin the process of levying the tariffs, declaring foreign film subsidies a “concerted effort” by other countries to undermine Hollywood’s global dominance.

“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A, are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!”

The president blamed a “grossly incompetent governor,” likely Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, for “Hollywood being destroyed” in a comment to reporters outside of Marine One on Monday morning.

“I’ve done some very strong research over the past week, and we’re making very few movies now,” Trump said. “Hollywood is being destroyed. Now, you have an incompetent, grossly incompetent governor that allowed that to happen, so I’m not just blaming other nations. But other nations, a lot of them, have stolen our movie industry. If they’re not willing to make a movie inside the United States, then we should have a tariff on movies that come in.”

Roughly half of all U.S. spending on film and television projects over $40 million in 2023 occurred outside the country, according to ProdPro, a firm that tracks global film budgets.

The Los Angeles fires in January further exacerbated the trend of overseas film production, according to FilmLA, a nonprofit that issues shoot permits in the city. The nonprofit’s first-quarter production report shows L.A. on-location production plunged 22.4% year-over-year, including a 28.9% slide for feature films and a 30.5% hit to television.

It is unclear whether the tariffs would apply to independent foreign-language films or joint ventures with American studios. The Motion Picture Association, which represents major Hollywood studios, did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Thomas English

Contributor.

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‘Companies Will Bring Work Back’: UAW President Defends Trump Tariffs In Verbal Slugfest With Befuddled MSNBC Hosts

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United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain engaged in an 11-minute verbal battle with MSNBC hosts Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele on Sunday over tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.

Trump announced reciprocal tariffs to address import duties and “horrendous imbalances” in trade with other countries during an April 2 Rose Garden event a week after he imposed a 25% tariff covering imported cars, SUVs, crossovers, minivans and light trucks, in addition to parts including engines and transmissions, citing “national security concerns.” Fain, who had been critical of Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign, said the tariffs would provide an incentive for jobs to return to the United States.

“Now, we’ve been very clear,” Fain said. “We do believe, and we know, when it comes to auto, when it comes to heavy truck, and agricultural implementation, we know that tariffs will influence these companies to do the right thing and reinvest in this country and reinvest in factories in this country.”

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“At the end of the day, we believe that Stellantis and these companies will bring work back because of these tariffs,” Fain added later.

While the leadership of the UAW backed then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election — Fain even labeled Trump a “scab” during the Democratic National Convention — many rank-and-file members of the union backed Trump.

“Since NAFTA’s inception in 1993, we’ve lost 90,000 manufacturing facilities in this country. Millions of jobs, and these weren’t, you know, low end jobs. These were jobs that paid decent wages, had good benefits, retirement security-” Fain said before Sanders-Townsend interrupted him.

“But here’s my thing… NAFTA was 30 years ago. The situation that we are dealing with right now, and I agree with you, I’m on the side of the folks that said they… did the American workers wrong, absolutely,” Sanders-Townsend said. “But right now we are dealing with a situation where it’s not — these are blanket tariffs. We are dealing with situation where manufacturing is not going to come back in two weeks. So what? How, I’m just, I’m really struggling to figure to understand how UAW has aligned itself with Trump on this.”

Trump campaigned on imposing tariffs to help boost manufacturing in the United States. After co-host Michael Steele questioned whether the tariffs could create jobs, Fain responded.

“NAFTA is still causing us to lose jobs in this country. Our broken trade system is still causing us to lose jobs in this country and no one from either party has been willing to even address the issue for 30 plus years. That’s the first thing,” Fain said. “And we support tariffs as a tool, a tool in the toolbox, not the end all be all. We got to fix the broken trade system. But tariffs are a motivator to make these companies do the right thing.”

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Harold Hutchison

Reporter.

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Playing The ‘Long Game’

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Donald Trump is playing the long game with tariffs. His goal is to restore our industrial base by revolutionizing the way the United States trades with the rest of the world.

We no longer make antiobiotics, and import much of our steel, computer chips, and our cars. We must even import titanium sponge — a key component for weapons systems — from producers in China, Russia, and Kazakhstan.

Think about that for a moment.

As President Trump said this week, the “free trade” system of the past thirty years has led to the closing of 90,000 U.S. factories. Our manufacturing base today accounts for just 10% of GDP, half of what it was under President Reagan.

As World War II was drawing to a close in 1944, the United States pledged its power and wealth to a new world order. Through the Bretton Woods agreement, and later, the Marshall Plan, U.S. taxpayers subsidized the reconstruction of Europe.

Part of that new world order allowed the Europeans to export their products to the United States without tariffs, while imposing tariffs on U.S. goods sold to Europe.

Similar arrangements were made with Japan. And for decades, no one mentioned them.

To protect the new international trading system, the United States built a massive blue-water navy to defend international waterways, and permanently deployed 300,000 U.S. combat troops to West Germany to defend NATO.

In the 1990s, the trade concessions were extended to Communist China, Mexico, and Canada with catastrophic results.

As Ross Perrot liked to say during the 1992 presidential election, the minute NAFTA went into effect (which happened in 1994), “there will be a giant sucking sound” of factories moving south.

And that is exactly what happened. It took another ten years or so for the Chinese to catch up, but they did — with a vengeance.

The real question we should all be asking ourselves is not why Trump just upset the world trading system with tariffs, but why he is the first American president to call out China, the Europeans, and others for ripping us off for so long?

Even before the new tariffs were implemented on April 2, Trump’s dramatic shift in policy attracted $6 trillion in new investment in America’s industrial base.

Yes, it will take time for these new factories to be built and the work force to be trained up. But once they open, we will be more secure as a nation and our economy reinvigorated with a renewed and expanded middle class.

Some pundits have wondered why Trump didn’t wait to announce the tariffs until after his “big beautiful” tax bill became law, to lessen the economic pain.

The answer to that one is simple: because Congress is even less predictable than the stock market.

In January, they were telling us they would have a bill for the president to sign in the first 100 days. Now, they are talking about the end of August, which could mean, whenever.

Donald Trump has a big, bold, transformative vision of America’s future.

But he’s not an intellectual or a dreamer, he’s a doer. We have never in our history had a president who combined the big picture goals of the visionary with the concrete skills and know-how of the builder.

And that’s what “liberation day” is all about. Do we see ourselves as slaves to distant masters who control our wealth and our destiny? Or as free men and women in charge of our own destiny?

Freedom always has a cost. And it’s worth it.

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Yours in freedom.

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Trump Forced Mexico’s Hand On Immigration — The Reforms Are Already Working

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Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico –

Tijuana, nestled on the border between Mexico and California, regularly ranks among the most dangerous cities in the world.

It had the sixth highest murder rate of any city on the globe in 2024, with over 91 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, according to Statista.

The U.S. State Department has issued travel advisories for Mexico’s state of Baja California as recently as September 2024, warning “travelers should remain on main highways and avoid remote locations.”

“Transnational criminal organizations compete in the border area to establish narco-trafficking and human smuggling routes,” the advisory cautioned, adding that “violent crime and gang activity are common.”

However, the city looks very different in Feb. 2025 than it did in January.

The change is, at least in part, thanks to Operación Frontera Norte, or Operation Northern Border. The sweeping operation is a result of an edict from recently elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who ordered 10,000 Mexican National Guard troops to the border at the behest of President Donald Trump.

Trump threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico if Sheinbaum did not take action to stop the flow of fentanyl and migrants into the U.S. The U.S. is Mexico’s largest trading partner, with exports to the U.S. accounting for about 30% of Mexico’s annual GDP.

Citizens noticed the impacts of Operación Frontera Norte immediately. At numerous ports of entry, including a well-traveled point between Tijuana and San Diego, Mexican officials are now searching vehicles before they make it to American authorities on the border.

One Mexican citizen who commutes to his job in California at Amazon every day said the upgraded scrutiny has added an hour to his commute.

These searches by the Mexican National Guard are the first time in over three decades that Mexico is conducting vehicle searches before cars get to the border, Director of the Mexican National Guard in Baja California General Hector Jimenez Baez, told the Daily Caller.

The changes were evident not just at official border checkpoints, but in numerous places on the border that don’t have a port of entry or a physical wall. One such place was high up in the Nido de las Aguilas mountain range.

An unwalled section of the border in the mountain range is roughly a 45 minute drive up steep and rocky terrain from downtown Tijuana. Smugglers would often make the trek through a densely populated and compact series of villages and open-air markets to ferry migrants across the open gap in the wall.

Around 120 people crossed through that previously unmanned border section per day, though U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apprehended the majority of them on the other side, the Mexican National Guard told the Caller. Now, following Operation Northern Border, the Mexican National Guard is operating the location 24/7. Nobody has attempted a crossing since the operation kicked off on Feb. 5, the Mexican National Guard told the Caller.

Another area where crossings were previously popular was a section of the border nestled against the Lakeside Sportsman Club, a California shooting range. A small portion of the crossing zone was covered by a metal sheet and barbed wire, but there are numerous open areas of the border where migrants can easily cross into California and walk just ten minutes to a nearby freeway, the National Guard told the Caller.

Groups as large as 100 at a time crossed at the junction. The area was littered with discarded clothes and shoes — high heels and sneakers — which smugglers encourage migrants to discard so they’re harder to spot. Smugglers frequently tell female migrants to wear high heels during the trek to the southern border, the Guard told the Caller, to prevent them from running away from the smugglers, who often sexually abuse them.

The Mexican National Guard is posted at the deep desert crossing 24/7 and, just like the Nido de las Aguilas mountain range location, nobody has attempted a crossing there since Feb. 4.

Paramount to the continued success of the operation — which may be in question as Trump’s pause on implementing the Mexico tariffs expired Tuesday — is ongoing cooperation between Mexican authorities and American officials, General Baez told the Caller.

An underreported element of that cooperation, Baez said, is the flow of American weapons into Mexico.

Since October, Mexican authorities have seized 6,582 illegal weapons and over a million cartridges, 70 percent of which came from the U.S., General Baez told the Caller. The weapons, Baez said, are a major source of power for the country’s cartels, who are largely responsible for the cross-border drug trade.

“If they don’t have weapons, they cannot kill people, and the homicides will decrease, and we won’t have an insecurity situation,” Baez told the Caller.

Whether or not the cooperation continues is now up in the air. Sheinbaum is likely to announce a series of retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. in response to Trump’s, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

But the numbers show that the reforms that stemmed from the increased cooperation are already working. Trump announced a record-low 8,236 border apprehensions by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in February.

“We share values, we share families, we share jobs,” General Baez said of American and Mexican cooperation.

“We have problems, of course we have problems,” he continued, “but it will be solved with cooperation and communication to make a stronger relationship between the countries. In every single camp — military, police and commercial ,” the general concluded.

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Robert McGreevy

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