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.
Anything that’s coming from China, the other terrorists are on pause right now but with Donald Trump you just never know. There’s also a lot of things that are made in America but the parts are sourced from China, in whole or in part. That being said once Panic buying sets in I expect even things that aren’t terrorists to start being price hiked and go missing from shells I people who don’t know the difference and don’t want to find out the hard way
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?
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!
The ones you don’t think of, naturally.
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.
I’ve got stuff in my house that was from Pakistan
That’s pretty diverse. And yeah, I don’t think even Trump knows what’s going to happen.
Anything that’s coming from China, the other terrorists are on pause right now but with Donald Trump you just never know. There’s also a lot of things that are made in America but the parts are sourced from China, in whole or in part. That being said once Panic buying sets in I expect even things that aren’t terrorists to start being price hiked and go missing from shells I people who don’t know the difference and don’t want to find out the hard way