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What Molson Hart thinks about tariffs

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Manufacturer and founder of Viahart, which makes educational toys. He has spent fifteen years manufacturing in China, Southeast Asia and the Americas, worked on a Chinese factory floor and built a factory in Texas, and writes about what moving a production line actually involves at molsonhart.com.

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4 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Molson Hart has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingRebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.

    Their wordsAmerica needs an educational and cultural transformation to compete with China and reverse the decline in living standards that Americans have suffered over decades.

    ↗Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.molsonhart.com 4th of 4 in this piece

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  3. Our readingUncertainty about how long a tariff will last, not the rate itself, is what stops anyone from building a factory.

    Their wordsThe tariffs have frozen business activity because no one wants to take a big risk dependent on a policy that may change next week.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 8th of 16 in this piece

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  5. Our readingThe 2018 tariffs moved production to Vietnam rather than back to the United States.

    Their wordsWhen the United States applied tariffs to China, it shifted huge amounts of manufacturing to Vietnam, which did not have tariffs applied to it.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 12th of 16 in this piece

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  7. Our readingTariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.

    Their wordsThey applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 13th of 16 in this piece

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