Socks are one of the things still made in America. Lots of brands of woolsocks and cotton socks, Maggies Organics, Duckworth, Wig Wam. There are USA made underwear, but it is expensive
As to the other, I am not worried about supply disruptions, any back up of items I have are not due to that but are just for in general.
I dont think Tariffs cause supply disruptions, it is a tax, it doesnt make the items go away, it could make it more expensive, but alot of the expense for such is because of the poor structure we have in the way that items are marked up as they go thru the supply chain middle buyers and stores. In general, unless it has changed, each step they just double the price of the item, so if they bought it from china for $5, they move it out of their warehouse at $10, then the store sells it for $20, this type of thing. So a 20% tariff would add $1 more. So it should just then be $21 instead of $20, but they just double the price each step, so then the $20 item goes to $24 and they blame it all on tariffs, but they dont have to just double it though, they could add on actual costs for warehousing and transport. This is one way large stores that do their own can keep prices lower.
This is how it was explained to me as I have interest in local products and products that dont poison the environment, including fabrics, so in that movement this was explained, the actual costs of lets say better wool practices or cotton or non polluting fabric dying only adds the equivalent of lets say $1 per sweater, but due to the way things are priced, this routine doubling, by the time it hits a sweater, the sweater would be on offer for $16 more, 4 doublings ( could be more doublings, this is just an example)
I guess a country could be mad at tariffs and withhold shipping products, but that hurts them just as much, so it would be temporary.
Anyways, I could be wrong, but I am not worried about it.
And, I have long thought that the best way to have panties(underwear) is to make them, since the ones we could feel good about buying, California sewn from organic ( so non-poisoned) cotton cost something like $20 or $24 a pair, it starts to be worth the trouble to make our own. SO far I have made one pair, it was 5 years ago and they are holding up so much better too, some random scrap of cotton and some elastic. I havent needed more as I had some, but they are wearing out so I will be sewing some more after the new year. I have bought some elastic to have on hand. Ask your PMC friends who sew if they have any elastic ( from the frenzy of COVID cotton mask sewing a couple years ago ! ) orlook to any thrift shops to see if that elastic has ended up there
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Re: Tariffs
Date: 2024-11-30 04:18 pm (UTC)As to the other, I am not worried about supply disruptions, any back up of items I have are not due to that but are just for in general.
I dont think Tariffs cause supply disruptions, it is a tax, it doesnt make the items go away, it could make it more expensive, but alot of the expense for such is because of the poor structure we have in the way that items are marked up as they go thru the supply chain middle buyers and stores. In general, unless it has changed, each step they just double the price of the item, so if they bought it from china for $5, they move it out of their warehouse at $10, then the store sells it for $20, this type of thing. So a 20% tariff would add $1 more. So it should just then be $21 instead of $20, but they just double the price each step, so then the $20 item goes to $24 and they blame it all on tariffs, but they dont have to just double it though, they could add on actual costs for warehousing and transport. This is one way large stores that do their own can keep prices lower.
This is how it was explained to me as I have interest in local products and products that dont poison the environment, including fabrics, so in that movement this was explained, the actual costs of lets say better wool practices or cotton or non polluting fabric dying only adds the equivalent of lets say $1 per sweater, but due to the way things are priced, this routine doubling, by the time it hits a sweater, the sweater would be on offer for $16 more, 4 doublings ( could be more doublings, this is just an example)
I guess a country could be mad at tariffs and withhold shipping products, but that hurts them just as much, so it would be temporary.
Anyways, I could be wrong, but I am not worried about it.
And, I have long thought that the best way to have panties(underwear) is to make them, since the ones we could feel good about buying, California sewn from organic ( so non-poisoned) cotton cost something like $20 or $24 a pair, it starts to be worth the trouble to make our own. SO far I have made one pair, it was 5 years ago and they are holding up so much better too, some random scrap of cotton and some elastic. I havent needed more as I had some, but they are wearing out so I will be sewing some more after the new year. I have bought some elastic to have on hand. Ask your PMC friends who sew if they have any elastic ( from the frenzy of COVID cotton mask sewing a couple years ago ! ) orlook to any thrift shops to see if that elastic has ended up there
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