Jason Junod
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77 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Oh, wow.
Mm-hmm.
Okay. Okay. As the preliminary results were coming in, Jason said it became clear to him that Trump was going to win.
And I'm like, yeah, I'm done here. So I finished my Chick-fil-A and I think I left the repose at like 9.30.
Jason left to send that message to his supplier in China. That's next.
When Jason got home on election night, he put in an order for 20,000 body brushes. And how long will that order last you?
I'd say about a year.
And then you're going to have to buy brushes again from China with these proposed tariffs. Correct. Are you worried about that?
I'm less worried about buying because I've been paying tariffs this whole time.
Typically, Chinese goods are subject to an average 15% tariff.
The actual process of the tariff is not new to me or scary, but I'm more concerned on how the market will react. And what buying a year's worth of inventory means, for me at least, is it gives us the benefit of time.
Across industries, U.S. companies have been making preparations for these tariffs. Some are stocking up like Jason is. Some are moving production out of China, like makers of Nerf guns and semiconductors. And some are trying to bring production into the U.S., like the company that makes Sharpies and Yankee candles. But Jason says he's stuck.
I've tried to get these sourced domestically and the dry brush industry does not exist here. I can't, if I physically want to, get these produced in America. I have to import them. And if you want to put a really high tariff in place, it almost feels like a punishment because I have no other choice.
One of the aims of tariffs is to encourage domestic manufacturing. Might a 60% tariff do that?
Sure, if that domestic manufacturing exists. I'm telling you, the body brushes I've tried to source, and it just doesn't happen in America right now. They may seem like an easy product. It's just a brush. It's just a wooden brush with some bristles and an elastic strap. But you need highly specialized machines to do so and skilled labor.
And so if that doesn't exist, my options are just to go to a different country. And that really doesn't solve the problem.
Well, it reduces the reliance of the world on Chinese manufacturing of scrub brushes.
Yes, it does. But then when there's also a blanket tariff on the board of 10% to 20% they've floated for any other country, and China is offering a consistent quality product at a consistent price... What's the point of switching from a supplier that I've built integrity with over the course of the last several years and trust and have consistently delivered for me and my business?
Are there other steps that you could take?
We could try to get these made elsewhere. Maybe I find a hole-in-a-wall supplier in North America. There's options, but the path of least resistance is we stay with our supplier, we pay the damn tariff, And we raise prices, unfortunately. And I don't want to be caught in the middle of a trade war. I'm not going to sacrifice the health of my business for some silly trade war.
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