American Liberation Day and effect to Hunting Clothing Costs?

[Brado16]

With the large reciprocal tariffs hitting a lot of the South East Asian countries yesterday, what impact do you expect a lot of the major hunting clothing lines to do with their upcoming pricing? As much as I love my Sitka, Kuiu and First Lite clothing, I can’t help but think these companies are scrambling right now trying to figure out which way is up right now. Do you think we will see production stop while these companies figure out what to do with their current production? Will they scramble to find the “least” tariffed country and move production there? Keep producing as normal and pass price increases to us the consumer? Look at brining manufacturing back to the USA?

Curious of your thoughts on what all of this means for our hunting lives which we are all so passionate about?

 

[txtransplant]

Price go up.

Hold onto your butt. Gonna be a lot of inflation across the board.

 

[7RemMag]

Fact of the matter is prices are going to go up. Not many industries that aren't going to feel this in some capacity. As said above, hang on to your hats...It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

 

[birdhunter]

Sadly alot of this stuff is made in Vietnam along with alot of sportswear like adi and nike.But it looks like they have already agreed to end/greatly reduce tariffs on US Imports and alot of those stocks have already rebounded today.I think personally its too early to panic and rush to buy stuff.Just my 2 cents.

 

[SWFLhntr]

Just got my 2nd Dakota hoody for $190. Feeling pretty good about myself.
Wife doesn’t quite get it……

 

[wyosam]

The cost of being a stylish hunter just went waaay up.


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[SWFLhntr]

Stylish indeed. Don’t forget comfortable.

 

[sneaky]

Stop buying new gear, they haven't reinvented the wheel. I can't think of anything I really "need" vs want. I can hold off.

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[txtransplant]

Stop buying new gear, they haven't reinvented the wheel. I can't think of anything I really "need" vs want. I can hold off.

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The problem is that once prices go up, they’ll never go back down.

If everything goes up 20% in the next year, and then the tariffs are lifted, literally nobody is going to reduce their prices back down.

 

[Dennis]

Buy used from Rokslide classified which saves you money and give fellow Americans a few bucks to spend else where.

 

[TaperPin]

My favorite used stuff on eBay has been going up and selling quick. Stop buying used and just pay whatever it costs. It’s making it hard on those of us that are cheap and like to hoard gear.

 

[mt terry d]

American Made will go up.
Less competition= higher cost (less supply vs demand)
Less laws/free trade=lower cost of production.
That's why American companies move.

 

[TaperPin]

Vietnamese apparel makers earn something under $6k a year. I wonder how many of those products will actually change to being made in the us. Most of that markup is US based company overhead and profit. If raw materials and labor went up 20% and the final cost of the item when up 5% why move production?

Tikka shooters aren’t going to switch to American made. Same for high end scopes and other optics.

Looking at everything at Target stores, if the manufacturing cost of any of it went up a similar amount I don’t see it changing manufacturing location a great deal, especially since US material prices are going up.

What will go up is the effective tax rate for each of us - tariffs are a sales tax. Invest that money in training for the working class, not tax breaks for the richest guys in the world.