Christmas shortages due to tariffs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...ump-voter.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...mas-china.html
Christmas shortages due to tariffs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...ump-voter.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...mas-china.html
Ports waiting for the fallout on west coast.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...e=articleShare
By way of anecdote, from my living room I can see cargo ships as they come and go through the Strait of Juan de Fuca. They generally, once through, head south to Seattle/Tacoma, or north up to Vancouver BC and the cargo handling facilities there.Originally Posted by Tradd
They mostly seem to be heading north these days.
The vessel-tracking tools I use show the Port of Seattle with very few ships at the cargo facilities. Almost empty compared to normal, it seems. Maybe it's seasonal, but...
Whereas Vancouver's ports look quite busy.
I guess this is one way to decrease the commercialization of Christmas.
right! And reduce the amount of cheap crap from China, I mean stuff that no one needs.
my main source of doll clothes is China vendors. They design and sell nice quality clothes and they are not cheap, but I won’t be paying 145% more.
I see IL has bought into the fiction that cheap crap is the only stuff China exports.
No, not at all! But all of the cheap crap I am thinking of is not made in the U.S. It may not all be
china-made but it comes from that part of the world.
On the other hand, the aforementioned doll clothes I buy from China are Artisan because they are designed with imagination and made by hand with meticulous attention to detail. These are not doll clothes from a giant Mattel factory. They remind me of Barbie doll clothes from the early 1960’s when real fabrics like cottons and velvets were used with buttons and lace in scale.
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The news I've seen says that the turnaround time from loading in China to arrive on US shelves is about 6 or 8 weeks. So tariffs went into effect on 4/2 for many things...
It's too bad the idea of Amazon showing the tariff amount of a selling price was somehow nixed. I thought the press secretary Leavitt was going to blow a cortex talking about how it was some sort of vicious political plot. It would be nice if some of the big box stores would take up on the idea, although they are probably cowering in fear over retribution and law suits. It's not just plastic toys, but washer and driers and other major purchases.
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I really liked this idea of Amazon's.
I did, too! So, do you think Bezos was planning to do that company-wide and folded after the call with Trump, or do you think it really was just meant for the smaller cheap spinoff sites?
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