In a US manufacturing hub, no illusions about tariffs and jobs
Open positions: The sewing lines at Bernhard Furniture Company are growing and in need of more skilled craft workers. — Reuters
IN A town where a 30-feet tall chair is the chief landmark, and which is synonymous with a US furniture industry decimated over the years by imports from China, many greet the possibility of tariffs on Chinese goods with a shrug.
No wonder. Of three once bustling Thomasville furniture plants in the city limits, one is being demolished and cleared for parkland, another may become the site of a new police station, and a third is being converted into apartments.
President Donald Trump is threatening to levy tariffs of up to 25% on US$500bil of goods imported from China each year, including roughly US$20bil of furniture, as a way to bring back hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs lost to China and other low-cost competitors.
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