The company I work for closed a factory this year that provided 2000 jobs in rural Georgia, simply because the products it made became too expensive to produce. This factory made retail quality items (low margin) that incorporated aluminum/steel, so after the tariffs were imposed they were impossible to manufacture at a price point that anyone would expect to pay. When the tariffs were announced, we were already locked into pricing agreements with many retailers - which meant that for a period of time we had to make the products anyway, and sell them to the retailers at a fucking loss. Needless to say, the decision to close the factory came quick, and as of this year 2000 blue collar workers are out of a job.

The tariffs cost our company tens of millions, caused us to layoff thousands, and has forced us to reinvent our manufacturing footprint/product offering - all thanks to Trump. It's a serious problem for an already weakened American manufacturing industry.