Sabrina Siddiqui
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 28 Aug
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WSJ What’s News · Tariffs’ Messy Reality: The Cost-of-Living Election | Part 1: Ohio · 3 May 2026
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In other words, China subsidizes its steel, which makes it artificially cheaper.
Taxing it through tariffs makes U.S.-made steel more competitive by comparison.
And steel is a big deal for Whirlpool.
Bitzer says it makes up half the weight of a washing machine.
In recent years, 96% of the steel Whirlpool uses is made in the U.S.,
So they're not paying tariffs on that.
But that metal is more expensive than what they would get from China.
Last year, Trump doubled the tariffs on steel from 25 to 50 percent.
Whirlpool's U.S.
competitors now have to pay more for foreign steel.
And that's basically fine by Whirlpool, even though it pays certain tariffs, too.
One remaining trouble spot for Bitzer is the Chinese components, like electronics, displays, and some motors, that would be difficult to make in the U.S.
Whirlpool pays tariffs on those.
But Bitzer says foreign competitors outside of China who plug those same components into finished products before exporting them are off the hook.
The Trump administration's U.S.
trade representative, Jameson Greer, was also at the Whirlpool event.
He told me it's inevitable that some things won't be produced in the U.S.
By reshore, Greer means bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
from overseas.
Greer points to growth in manufacturing productivity in the U.S., and production has indeed gone up by 2.3% since Trump's return to the White House in January 2025.
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