Question for the class: aside from the obvious like computers and technology, what category items are we expecting to be hit hardest? Or to ask pointedly, what items that we NEED might be affected?
It’s time to play America’s favorite game, “Find Something Made in the U.S.A.”! Check the clothing in your closets, check the produce in your fridge, check the toys in your child’s toybox!
The first person to find five different items labeled “Made in the U.S.A.” wins the game!
Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first–the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.
I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don’t grow that here.
I have a bit of chocolate.
I really don’t know what will be in short supply. I didn’t want to hoard stuff I won’t use, but I don’t want to run out of stuff I need.
we dont grow cacoa either, tropical climates grow our vanilla orchids, cacoa, and coffee beans, avacadoes, pineapples too. and vanilla is notoriously hard to grow, due to its biology(because you have to hand pollinate each flower as the natural pollinator is probably in its native range is either extinct or extirpated and not available in where the vanilla grows, and the vanilla has been mostly self-pollinating.
Question for the class: aside from the obvious like computers and technology, what category items are we expecting to be hit hardest? Or to ask pointedly, what items that we NEED might be affected?
The ones you don’t think of, naturally.
Literally anything imported. Which is virtually everything.
It’s time to play America’s favorite game, “Find Something Made in the U.S.A.”! Check the clothing in your closets, check the produce in your fridge, check the toys in your child’s toybox!
The first person to find five different items labeled “Made in the U.S.A.” wins the game!
Baby care items are going to get hit hard.
Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first–the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.
I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don’t grow that here. I have a bit of chocolate.
I really don’t know what will be in short supply. I didn’t want to hoard stuff I won’t use, but I don’t want to run out of stuff I need.
we dont grow cacoa either, tropical climates grow our vanilla orchids, cacoa, and coffee beans, avacadoes, pineapples too. and vanilla is notoriously hard to grow, due to its biology(because you have to hand pollinate each flower as the natural pollinator is probably in its native range is either extinct or extirpated and not available in where the vanilla grows, and the vanilla has been mostly self-pollinating.
Yep. I suspect we’ll be fine for cheap/low quality candy, thanks to native corn syrup. Sadly my tastes run a bit fancier.
I thought most clothing was now made in Vietnam and Indonesia?
I’m not sure. A quick audit of my clothing says Peru, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Poland, and China.
I’m also not sure how the tariffs will end up.
That’s pretty diverse. And yeah, I don’t think even Trump knows what’s going to happen.