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posted by martyb on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the tired-of-winning dept.

Trump's China Tariffs Claim Another Victim: A South Carolina TV Manufacturing Plant:

The tariffs imposed by President Trump have claimed more jobs, this time at a consumer-electronics manufacturing plant in South Carolina.

Element Electronics blamed tariffs on Chinese imports for its decision to shut down its manufacturing facilities in Winnsboro, SC, a town located about 30 miles north of the state's capital. The plant, which makes Element TVs, will maintain a skeleton crew of eight workers, as it hopes the shutdown will be temporary."

The news is especially hard for Winnsboro and its surrounding communities because of recent job losses in the area, including the shuttering of a Walmart store, the closing of a textile mill, and the cancellation of plans to construct two nuclear reactors.

Element notified the state's Department of Employment about its plans, according to Columbia-based The State newspaper, which first reported on the plant's closing. In its notification, Element stated, "The layoff and closure is a result of the new tariffs that were recently and unexpectedly imposed on many goods imported from China, including the key television components used in our assembly operations in Winnsboro."


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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:04PM (2 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:04PM (#719467)

    Yep, THAT guy. And I couldn't get a job at [major defense contractor] where my dad worked for years with likely top secret clearance but we don't know and weren't allowed to know and there's nothing in my background to prevent said employment just insane red tape with the shiny-shoe overly serious dudes who wanted to know where my dad's parents were born. The same dad. Yet Chinese guy gets access to far far greater stuff and sends it to motherland. That's how high the US govt. average IQ is shown to be.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:22PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:22PM (#719477) Homepage Journal

    I am completely convinced that his _real_ clearance was much higher than that.

    He was in the Navy during Vietnam, got an MSEE with the GI Bill after the war then returned to the Navy as a civilian Civil Service engineer.

    Much of his work at Mare Island Naval Shipyard was done on the Sea Wolf. Decades later a book is published that claims that the Sea Wolf was one of the subs that tapped into Soviet undersea fiber optic cables.

    I wouldn't know, but I do know that Dad had this to say: "Aboard submarines there are some black boxes. And there are some quiet men who tend to those black boxes".

    My father was a quiet man.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @05:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @05:50PM (#720003)

      A top secret or TS/SCI clearance would be typical for the sort of work your dad was doing.