Since their announcement on April 2, the tariffs proposed by the Trump administration have led to volumes of rhetoric both for and against. Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman dubbed the tariffs “economic nuclear winter.” The United Auto Workers union called them a “powerful tool… for undoing the injustice of anti-worker trade deals.”
On April 5, customers of American Giant received an email from Winthrop titled “A Note on Tariffs.” In 64 words, the message reminded recipients that the brand’s clothing has been “made here since 2011” and that “we’ve been making things here because we felt it was the right thing to do.”
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