This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Karla Trotman, President and CEO of Electro Soft Inc., a US specialty electronics manufacturer in Pennsylvania.
My dad and I worked together, and in 2020, I bought them out, so now I'm the owner, president, and CEO.
We're still feeling the reverberation from the last round of tariffs, so they never really went away in our industry.
Tariff proponents seem to think that enforcing them will cause stateside manufacturing to somehow jump up and be prosperous, but it doesn't really work that way.
We really need to understand where our partners are headed so we can flex to meet whatever demand is going to come down the pike.
Persons:
Donald Trump's, Karla Trotman, We're, Trump, I'm, we're
Organizations:
Electro Soft Inc, Ikea, Southeastern Pennsylvania Manufacturing Alliance
Locations:
Pennsylvania, Asia, Taiwan, China