Daniel Florness

So you are absolutely correct.

Most of the fasters in this country in North America in general come from, uh, Northern Asia, China, uh, primarily, um, obviously huge impacts.

And for us, what it's meant is over about, for about the last six years, seven years, we've been actively expanding our ability to import fasters because there's still a lot, not a lot of domestic production.

And, uh,

And so when I think back to 2018, our primary sourcing entity was based in Shanghai with a secondary location in southern Taiwan.

Today, we have personnel in Bangkok.

We have personnel in India.

And that's where all of our growth and movement of sourcing personnel has occurred over the last

seven, eight years to just broaden our ability to be a little more agile and where you source from, depending on the geography it's going into.

Yeah, I guess, you know, anecdotally, yes.

I can't say that we've seen a tremendous influx

What I would say is I hear less about stuff leaving than maybe I would have 10 years ago or five years ago.

And that in itself is a win from the standpoint of production.

But a lot of it is folks are getting closer to where the end customer is for a lot of our customers.

And so when I see customers expanding production facilities in North America, and I'll say more broadly than North America rather than just the United States, it's usually to service more efficiently the local market.

Mm-hmm.

Well, it's unusual in that, you know, you hear about everything, whereas in years past,

There was so much of this political stuff that went on.

But most of it, if you weren't in the midst of it, you were oblivious to.

And you just went around about your life.