Exactly. Increasing cost structure in Malaysia already made it very difficult to compete with production costs in China, Indonesia and Thailand. With even much higher manufacturing costs (at least 2x) in USA in relation to present low margin business (ASPs) for the glove sector, it will not be adequately compensated by zero USA tariff and freight charges rates. Very challenging going forward indeed once there are no economies of scale !

Investing in low margin glove manufacturing business in the USA is definitely a wrong strategic move based on global oversupplies dynamics. The cost of production in the USA is at least 2x higher than in Malaysia and impossible to pass on the cost increases fully to US consumers when they can easily get cheaper imported products ! As the company will still be making losses for at least another few years with high cash burn rate, it is still expensive in a price-taker market despite its battered down share price.