Donald Trump’s tariff laid down the hopes for manufacturing in the test

In the corner of the nineties factory in the nineteenth century in the south of Massachusetts, 15 people were bent on sewing machines, which led to the overcoming of newborns at hospital level.

They are all the remainder of what was previously a much larger manufacturing process, most of which closed the Teixeira family in 1990, which re -invented their business as a large storage and distribution company.

Since US President Donald Trump began offering a full customs tariff, Teixeiras has taken more inquiries from newly interested companies in US -based sewing services.

But they rejected these offers, deterring the difficulty of employment in the midst of the immigration and suspicion campaign that the request would continue.

It is just one of the many indicators to revive the manufacturing that the president promised much more difficult than the White House.

“This will not happen only,” said Frank Texira, who joined the family company in the 1970s and supervised its dismantling and re -invention as a service accuracy service.

“The definitions are a bad policy, and in the end it will return to the house to chase us.”

Trump carried out a campaign for the presidency on a better economy promise, which was partially designed through the customs tariff that he said would reduce costs and enter into a new golden age.

The message has been echoed with voters, which helps the campaign to achieve unexpected ways in the working class areas that are considered the strongholds of democracy.

This includes the Fall River base in Teixeiras, a former textile center, where Trump’s first victory in the city was by a Republican presidential candidate in almost a century.

But his plans were widely moved by experts, who warned that customs duties, which are a tax on imports, will instead raise the prices of American companies, consumers and slow growth – with special risks for manufacturers, who often depend on imported supplies.

Now nine months of the president’s mandate with the passage of the customs tariff, the gap between Trump’s speech, which surpasses the investments that flow to the country, and the reality on the ground in places like Val River, began to appear.

Labor growth in the United States It slowed down this yearIncluding in manufacturing. After expanding after the epidemic, salary statements in manufacturing companies decreased this year, which threw 12,000 jobs last month alone.

Commercial investigative studies indicate that the activity in the sector is shrinking.

Last month, 71 % of the manufacturers that the Dallas Branch in the Federal Reserve said the definitions – ranging from 10 % to 50 % on most imports – had already had a negative impact on their business, increased resource cost and profit harm.

In Matouk, the extremist bedroom maker on the way from Teixeiras, President George Matock said that between April and August has already added more than $ 100,000 (74,000 pounds) per month, as they reached supplies such as cotton fabric from India, Portugal and below from Liecchenstein.

The company was founded by his grandfather in 1929, and the company has grown to employ about 300 people in recent years – a pride point for Mr. Matok, who faced rejectionists when he returned as a third generation to join family business after graduating from Colombia’s Business Administration in the late 1990s.

But the sudden tariff expenses forced the company to reduce investments on things such as new equipment and spending on estimated elements such as marketing.

Despite the distinction between America for many of his products, Mr. Matok said he expected any benefits of definitions because the high costs were driving him to raise prices, a step that is likely to weigh sales.

“Because the materials are subject to definitions like everything else, the benefits are not present,” he said.

Mr. Mattok described the current challenges facing his company “frustrated in a new way”, as it was deliberately attached, through government policy.

“We have done all the things that we were supposed to do to invest in the United States industrial base when no one was ready to do this, and it is really frustrated that we are now punishing,” he said.

Studies on the impact of the limited definitions imposed by Trump during his first term on manufacturers in the United States have found that small business gains in protected industries, such as steel, were more corresponding to the losses in other parts that depend on parts.

But Mike Van der Slesen, who runs the works of Vanson Bensj Sitra, said he believed that the changes this year were so troubled that it was too early to provide predictions.

Mr. Van der Solsen, who voted for Trump last year, is not a fan of the president’s tariff, which paid about 15 % this year.

However, the president’s fears participated that foreign companies can easily reach the American market, while American companies are looking to sell obstacles abroad in the form of tariffs and other taxes.

“It was an unequal and incredible commercial path for a company like Vanson,” said Mr. Van der Solsen, whose work was established in 1974 and hired more than 160 people in 2000, before Walb China reduced to the world order.

“We should not receive them and should not receive us in my opinion, but this will never happen,” he said.

Currently, the demand for jackets, which could sell thousands of dollars. He said that his suppliers in the United States were reporting an increase in activity.

“We did not hear the additional work in the world of textile for 20 years!” He said. “It is difficult to be confident that you can predict what he will get rid of because the changes were very exciting.”

On the streets of Val River, many Trump supporters said they were ready to give the president time to put his strategy in the test.

“We must be able to manufacture,” said Tom Texira.

The 72 -year -old retired transport worker voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, partially won his message on the economy.

“I know how it was and it can be improved but it will not improve overnight,” said Mr. Texera, who is not associated with Teixeira manufacturers, adding that he had not yet noticed any significant increase in prices this year.

“After a year from now, if things are not cheaper, we will see.”