Manufacturers Can't Get Supplies

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

American manufacturers are having pandemic flashbacks: some say tariff disruptions are starting to stack up to the COVID era, with nearly as much difficulty securing critical inputs.

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Factories are reporting increasingly longer delivery times for supplies. Material prices are rising at a faster rate. Automakers are warning of supply disruptions shutting down assembly lines, with at least one carmaker pausing production. This time there is no deadly virus, though trade wars and tariffs are still sending shockwaves through global supply chains, which could leave consumers with fewer options on shelves.

The demented------------- is a deadly virus.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-04 11:51 AM | Reply

Manufacturing is now cutting jobs due to the tariffs.

So much winning.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-04 12:45 PM | Reply

And so begins the Trumpdemic... where a mask really won't protect you.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-04 12:49 PM | Reply

This is intended.

"Only The Weak Will Fail!"

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-04 12:51 PM | Reply

As with everything else, this was an obvious outcome to everyone but the maga idiots who believe everything Trump says.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 12:52 PM | Reply

Bessent had the audacity to go on TV and whine that China is not sending materials needed for US industries to keep going.

This clown ass administration is the least self aware group of dumbfux I have ever seen.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-04 02:48 PM | Reply

U.S. economy stalled in May

www.marketwatch.com

The putrid------------- strikes again.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-04 07:36 PM | Reply

No container tsunami heading to Los Angeles, says port chief (May 19, 2025)
www.freightwaves.com

... The head of the busiest U.S. container port doesn't expect a big jump in import shipments during the pause in China tariffs.

"Next we will see an uptick in [vessel] bookings from China, but I don't see a huge surge that will impact the Port of Los Angeles," said port Executive Director Gene Seroka, in a monthly media briefing. "Probably less than the 30% that we had during the peak of the peak' of COVID.

"From all the stakeholders we talk with and all the data we review, we are seeing bookings pick up at Asia ports. But prices are still very much elevated, leading retailers, manufacturers and other importers to carefully evaluate their strategies." ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 10:51 PM | Reply