Donald Trump’s tariffs put us Renaissance hopes of the test

In the corner of the cavernous factory from the 1890s in South Massachusetts, 15 people are bent over sewing machines, throwing a specialty, neonatal equipment in a hospital class.

They are all that remains of what has once been a much more production operation, most of which are the Teixeira family in 1990, rediscovering their business as a large extent storage and distribution business.

Since US President Donald Trump has begun to deploy the fasting tariffs, Teixeiras has been conducting more inquiries from companies that are new to their sewing services in the United States.

But they refused these offers, deterred by the difficulty of hiring immigration repression and doubts that demand would be maintained.

This is just one of the many indications that the achievement of the production revival promised by the president will probably be much more difficult than the White House.

“It just won’t happen,” said Frank Teyheira, who joined the family business in the 1970s and managed his dismantling and rediscovery like Togute Services Inc.

“Tariffs are a bad policy and they will eventually go home to chase us.”

Trump has campaign for the Presidency of the Promise of a better economy, designed in part by tariffs, which he believes will reduce costs and introduce into a new Golden Age.

The message turned out to be resonating with voters, helping the campaign to make unexpected interventions in working -class areas, long considered democratic fortresses.

This includes the Teixeiras Base on Fall River, a former textile production center, where Trump’s victory has been the first in the city by a Republican candidate for president for about a century.

However, his plans were widely borned by experts who warned that tariffs, which were tax on imports, would instead increase prices for US business and consumers and slow growth – with special risks for producers who often rely on imported supplies.

Now, nine months after the president’s term, as the tariffs are mastered, the bay between Trump’s rhetoric, which is proud of investment pouring into the country, and the reality of Earth in places like Fall River is beginning to appear.

U.S. Employment growth This year has been delayedIncluding production. After expanding after the pandemic, salaries at manufacturing companies contracted this year, throwing 12,000 jobs last month alone.

Business surveys show that the activity in the sector is in contraction.

Last month, 71% of the manufacturers interviewed by the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve, said the tariffs – which range from 10% to 50% at most imports – have already had a negative impact on their business, increasing the cost of resources and hurting profits.

In Matouk, a high -end manufacturer on the road from Teixeiras’, boss George Matuk said that between April and August the tariffs had already added more than $ 100,000 (£ 74,000) a month as they hit supplies like Cotton India and Portugal.

Founded by its grandfather in 1929, the company has grown to hire about 300 people in recent years -a point of pride for d -Matuk, who confronted Naysayers when he returned as a third generation that joined the family business after graduating from the Business School in Colombia in the late 1990s.

But sudden tariff costs forced the company to reduce investment of things such as new equipment and costs for discretional items such as marketing.

Despite the distinction in America to many of his products, Mr Matuk said he was expecting any benefits from tariffs, as higher costs push him to raise prices, with the move likely to weigh on sales.

“Because the materials are subject to tariffs, just like everything else, the benefits are not there,” he said.

Matuk called the current challenges that his company “demoralization in a new way” faces, since they were deliberately inflicted by government policy.

“We did all the things we had to do to invest in the industrial base of the United States when no one else was ready to do it and it’s just really disappointing that we’re punished now,” he said.

Studies on the impact of more limited tariffs imposed by Trump during his first term on manufacturers in the United States have found that small profits from jobs in protected industries, such as steel, are more than offset by losses in other companies that are dependent on parts.

But Mike Van der Ized, who runs a Vanson Leathers motorcycle jacket business, said he believed the changes this year were so destructive that it was premature to make forecasts.

G -n Van der Izv, who voted for Trump last year, is not a fan of the president’s tariffs, who this year assured his costs of about 15%.

However, he shared the president’s concerns that foreign companies can easily have access to the US market, while US companies that want to sell obstacles abroad in tariffs and other taxes.

“It was a very uneven and unfair commercial route for a company like Vanson,” says G -n Van der Imple, whose business was founded in 1974 and rented more than 160 people recently in 2000, before entering China to the world order, to become the workforce to about 50.

“We should not charge them and they should not charge us in my opinion, but that will never happen,” he said.

So far, the demand for his jackets, which can be sold for thousands of dollars, is being held. He said his suppliers in the United States were reporting to perceive activity.

“We haven’t heard overtime in the textile world for 20 years!” he said. “It is difficult to be sure that you can predict what will be shaken because the changes were so dramatic.”

On the streets of the Fall River, many supporters of Trump have said they are ready to give the president to put his strategy for the test.

“We must be able to produce,” said Tom Teseira.

The 72-year-old retired transit worker voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, who won partly from his economy message.

“I know how it was and can be improved, but it will not improve overnight,” said G -N -Teseira, who is not related to Teixeira manufacturers, adding that he is still going to notice significant price increases this year.

“In a year, if things are not more expensive, we will see.”