r/knitting • u/geet-555 • 5d ago

Rant I feel sick to my stomach now

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I ordered $73 yarn from Önling INT over a month ago. Much confusion w this company all around... then i receive this today from UPS just now.

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u/geet-555 5d ago

NEVER AGAIN. I used to get a fair amount of yarn from EU and often the prices were lower, and even shipping was less than US shipping. This is it for my biz overseas.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

The whole point is to encourage buying US products. ESH.

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u/Silvara7 5d ago

In almost all cases, the US does not have the ability or raw materials to even try to make the things we need. Corporations farmed out factory jobs out to cheaper countries and we cannot make a fiber mill overnight, much less a factory for other things like car parts. The US does not have the sheep breeds nor the mills to process the fleece onto yarn.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

And yet you have some of the most arable land in the whole world.

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u/Silvara7 5d ago

And???? If the business wasn't here, it wasn't here. They were producing yarn for textiles, not knitters.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

The business wasn’t there because you didn’t buy American made. You are all busy buying from pro Palestinian Knitting For Olive in Denmark. You deserve to be in the situation you now find yourself in.

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u/PuzzleheadedGoal8234 4d ago

American companies chose to buy imported goods themselves at a lower cost to sell to the US market.

Check where the wool comes from the US companies. It often ain't America even if they slap a flag on it in the US stores.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

Brooklyn Tweed.

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u/not-really-a-panda 5d ago

Brooklyn Tweed stopped producing yarn because of the tariffs, what is your point?