Vice President JD Vance on Friday touted the Trump administration’s plans to “rebuild American manufacturing” at a plastics manufacturing facility in Michigan despite the industry’s protests against tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
President Donald Trump announced plans to tax imports from those two countries at 25 percent as part of his long-term goal to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
“Our goal is to make it easier and more affordable to make things again in the United States of America,” Vance said. “If you want to be rewarded, build in America. If you want to be penalized, build outside of America. It’s as simple as that.”
But those goals conflict with plastics industry warnings that the tariffs will hurt domestic plastics manufacturing.
