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Actually this says the trademark is pending them proving they are using it and they aren’t so they keep filing extensions. Also it’s limited in scope to word processing (at there is lots of back and forth with the trademark office about that)

Did search engines increase rudeness?


Search engines don't speak English.


neither do LLMs.


Not sure why the sarcasm. Do we keep picking up the tab until they're trampling the entire Bill of Rights?


> It's always going to be cheaper to make things in places where labor costs and environmental responsibility expectations are low.

Yeah, offshoring was mostly about driving down costs by laundering labor and environmental law.


That's why the manufacturing companies did it. The politicians allowed it because it was meant to make the world more peaceful and prosperous. Which it did, really.


Nice, you found Canadian wine and orange juice?


The former is very much a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_wine


Impressive scale actually, didn't realize there were over 500 Canadian wineries.


But he doesn't need Canadian, only not from the USA.


They can substitute US products with those from plenty of nations plowing money into overcapacity and dumping their exports on the international market.


Only on those who buy imports.


This seems to assume that everything can be imported or acquired domestically. But tariffs implemented in other countries are much more specific. It makes sense to use tariffs when you have the capability to meet your domestic demand with domestic supply. Indiscriminate tariffs catch things where demand far exceeds domestic production, whether that's raw materials, specific foods, or things that will take a long time to ramp up production domestically.

Ultimately, lots of things manufactured domestically will still increase in price because of the raw materials they require.


Please do explain how one can purchase coffee beans from anywhere but a country close to the equator?



Buy American. False Made in USA claims are subject to fines exceeding $40k per violation.


Good luck enforcing those on a Chinese drop shipper.


You haven't been following the FTC's enforcement?

e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/owner-conservative-appa...


> The company is based in Salt Lake City.

Chinese drop shippers aren't dumb enough to pull the scam from within the FTC's juridsiction.


> after he posted a video on social media titled "MADE IN AMERICA!" in which he said "he could conceal the fact that his shirts are made in China by ripping out the original tags and replacing them with tags stating that the merchandise was made in the United States".

Or to openly advertise it.


wow, i guess this is where the "made in america" rubber hits the road...


The ancients had reed/bamboo pens, which looked similar to modern pencils, though they were largely supplanted by quill pens by medieval times.


They had charcoal too. There are charcoal graffiti in Pompeii.


The answer is 100% charcoal.

Ancient pencils were made of charcoal, unless you have a very obtuse definition of what a pencil is.

If you've never made a pencil at home out of charcoal, can you even say you are a free (wo)?man\?


Nah, just appreciated this relic of '10s culture from the great mustache boom back around the turn of the 13th b'ak'tun.


On the contrary, a weaker dollar would make exports more competitive and imports more expensive, thus realigning trade balance.

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system


This is a strategy for low income countries in a race to the bottom, not rich ones. So maybe circle back to this in 5 years.


If you are manufacturing complex things with complex supply chains (like a Boeing 787 or a Caterpillar power shovel), the imports being expensive bit also drives up the price of exports.

But regardless of what happens with trade balance, it will also make borrowing money much more expensive, which is not great for the US since our debt to GDP ratio is over 100%.

It also removes another non-military weapon from our toolkit.


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