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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,260 posts)
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 01:58 PM Mar 2016

Trump has profited from foreign labor he says is killing U.S. jobs

Not much of a secret. Google DU to see many posts about this from last year.

I saw a Trump shirt at a Goodwill last November. Sheesh, was it ghastly.

Trump has profited from foreign labor he says is killing U.S. jobs

By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger March 13 at 10:19 PM
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Today, Donald J. Trump Collection shirts — as well as eye­glasses, perfume, cuff links and suits — are made in Bangladesh, China, Honduras and other low-wage countries.

Trump’s daughter Ivanka, a vice president at his company and frequent campaign surrogate, markets hundreds of additional products under her own line of jewelry and clothing. Many are made in China.
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For example, the website selling Ivanka Trump’s merchandise line links to 838 products — 628 of them imported. Of those, 354 are from China, a country that Donald Trump often says takes advantage of the large U.S. trade deficit.

Ivanka Trump’s products also were marketed alongside her father’s on the Trump Organization website. But amid criticism last week of the family’s outsourcing practices, his daughter’s page was removed.
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