Tariffs hit RV prices
In today's Wall Street Journal, Michael Happe, CEO Winnebago, " We've had to go to market a bit more frequently and a bit more aggressively with some price increases as of late" They are also modifyin...
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SidecarFlip wrote:
Smacks of Harley Davidson and their whining about a tentative 100 million dollar loss due to Tariff's but at the same time opening a plant in Taiwan to make the 'American Classic' Harley Davidson motorcycles.
I don't buy into any of that drivel.
Far as RV's go, just look inside. Almost all the components or at least part of the components come from, you guessed it...China.
Even that Fantastic roof fan... Chinese motor, Chinese electric components.
Remarked to our family doctor the other day..'About the only thing we make here anymore is babies and those are delivered with imported medical tools.
Things need to change, but to effect that change will take some hurt on the part of the American consumer.
Yes it will put some hurt on the American consumer, but the whole point is that it's suppose to put much more hurt on China etc. China is already in recession, so who is going to blink first? I'm willing to be patient, but a 12 billion bailout of American farmers seems like a blink to me. The whole thing seems like it's just going to hurt everybody. To see how it will all shake out might take years. I don't profess to understand any of it.
