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Jim Beam shutting down bourbon production at Kentucky distillery for a year as Trump’s trade wars hit sales
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Why should tariffs not work? What else could bring back manufacturing?
Surely if you want to force manufacturing back to a country via tarrifs you need to be smart and have a graduated tarrif over say 15 years increasing annually. That puts the market on notice but more importantly gives time for infrastructure and skills to be developed without immediately fucking over the population
There is no time for that. The military supposedly is preparing for a war with China as early as 2027, but more likely is 2030 when Europe wants to be ready for Russia.
Even if you build the infrastructure, there will still be Tariffs on the raw materials. The production stateside wouldn't be significant enough to offset that in any way with how things have been built the past 30+ years. If that hypothesis would even be the end goal, they likely would've saved more by pumping out extra acquisitions in the handful of years tariffs have rammed the economy and USA society at its most basic levels *ETA realized I might've more/less double-talked on @YeahToast@aussie.zone
How do acquisitions help build production capacity?
Bauxite costs $70 per tonne, aluminium $2500. The raw material is neglectable.
It takes 17,000 kWh of power to manufacture 1 tonne of aluminium.
In other words, the government is increasing demand for electricity production.