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| Just heard from Mustad. All new orders will have a 40% surcharge added to their price. VMC will also have a surcharge, though not as much. If you need hooks, get them now. Our next order will be reflecting the surcharge. |
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| Glad to hear it. I know that sounds crazy, but it is time to level the playing field for America. It will pass and we will be fine. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | No, it won't and I doubt we will be for quite a while.m |
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| Im no going to get too worried about policies in France |
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| Eagle Claw - Denver, Colorado. |
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| JoeP - 5/4/2025 11:01 AM
Eagle Claw - Denver, Colorado.
The question I would have, is that where they are made or is that the corporate headquarters? A buddy of mine was bragging about how he only uses Milwaukee Tools, good old made in the USA, but that is not quite true. They have a large headquarters in Milwaukee and a lot of employees but many of their cordless tools and batteries are produced in China. I have Milwaukee work gloves I really like but they are also made in China. |
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| Website says manufactured in USA since 1925. |
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| A lot of Eagle Claw hooks are made overseas. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | It's a global economy, boys. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. |
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| Slamr - 5/5/2025 10:12 AM
It's a global economy, boys. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
Agree. And folks have to stop thinking it is all about "getting it cheaper" when products are imported. When FI Serv Forum was being built in Milwaukee about 10 years ago, there was a story about how Merrill Steel in Wausau was fabricating the structural steel, which was true. But the steel itself came from Germany, not because it was cheap but because no company in the US made the size and quality of steel needed. Shipping giant steel beams from Germany to central WI is not cheap but to get the quality needed, that was necessary.
Merrill Steel did the fabrication, which involved cutting, etc. Took highly skilled craftsmen. China is a leader in high tech batteries. Again, not cheap but the best. |
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Location: Downers Grove, IL | A 40% increase in the cost of hooks is near the top of the "least of my concerns" list in this endeavor. |
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| The point is, if the gear you prefer is imported, get your supplies now because prices will very soon include a new hefty tax. And not long after that the #*#* you want might not be available at all.
It's incredible that so many Americans don't understand that tariffs are not paid by the manufacturer. They are paid by the customers in the USA. First the wholesalers who pass some or all of the increase to the retailers who pass some or all on to the final consumer. If the wholesalers and retailers are working on a slim margin the combination of increased costs leading to decreased demand puts them out of business. Where does the tariff money go? Straight into the federal treasury, just like income taxes.
Me, I think Eagle Claw quality is just below crap. And I bet they are very dependent on imports of raw materials to make the #*#* they sell. |
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| Slamr - 5/5/2025 11:12 AM
It's a global economy, boys. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
True that. And in a global economy everyone is interdependent. The best example of trying to be independent is North Korea. |
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| This thread is basement bound. |
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| muddymusky - 5/3/2025 12:10 PM
Glad to hear it. I know that sounds crazy, but it is time to level the playing field for America. It will pass and we will be fine.
Ah, the willfully ignorant, content in the echo chamber that convinces them to be afraid. |
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Location: WI | Musky lures will be fine with 1 single hook. They don’t need 2 or 3 treble hooks. |
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| raftman - 5/7/2025 9:09 AM
Musky lures will be fine with 1 single hook. They don’t need 2 or 3 treble hooks.
That's the spirit! The prez says little girls don't need 30 dolls, they can get by with three. We can all cut back. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | If we pay higher wadges something has to give to keep the prices down, for us older folks do you remember the cars made in America in the 70's? And yes the last four cars/trucks I owned have been Fords. |
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | Canuck, here. I recently bought a 2024 Ford F-250 XLT for $95 K made in Kentucky, USA. Just bought a Travel Lite camper for it for $40 K made in Syracuse, Indiana, USA and tow either a Crestliner Fishhawk made in New York Mills, Minnesota with Merc made in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin or another trailer made in Minnesota with a Polaris Widetrak snowmobile made in Osceola, Wisconsin or tow an Exiss Horse Trailer made in El Reno, Oklahoma. Also tow all the same trailers with an '08 Toyota Tundra made in Texas.
Just an FYI that Canada buys 1.7 million cars and trucks, but makes only 1.5 million. In 2024 Canada exported $350 million in dairy to US, but bought $850 million (and the tariffs mentioned never have been charged). It is just spring now here, still not in the north - so our trees take a lot more years to grow before they can be harvested for lumber, more rings, harder and robust wood - so no, the US does not have lumber that can replace what we have. You also don't have the heavy crude that the Texas refineries can turn into products they export at added value, oil which they get at a discount and only reason why US buys more from Canada than other way around. You don't have other stuff we have such as potash, uranium and so on.
So the tariffs are both an irritant and an insult to Canadians (given we buy more of your manufactured "stuff" than you of ours - fact), and the annex/51st state talk we take very seriously given the person saying it is serious given he actually does know the same facts mentioned.
Feel free to check these facts. |
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| A lot of farmers are finding out where potash comes from. And yes, your hard maple is a staple of hardwood floors. I put almost 1,000 feet of clear Canadian hard maple in my last house. A lot of work but beautiful stuff.
As to the insult, Americans should remember that our current trade agreements with Canada were signed by none other than Donald J. Trump in 2018, at which time he said they were a great deal. So the USA is breaking an agreement, that our current president signed. |
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| chuckski - 5/8/2025 9:39 AM
If we pay higher wadges something has to give to keep the prices down, for us older folks do you remember the cars made in America in the 70's? And yes the last four cars/trucks I owned have been Fords.
I had a few of them. Got 25 years out of most of them.
Had a 73 Ford Country Squire wagon. Solid mechanically, but it rusted out in short order.
Had a 1971 Skylark that I drove into the late 90's. Base model, 350 2bbl, really no problems mechanically, but lost that one to frame rot. Body was still clean.
Had a '79 Lesabre that would have been a good car except it was wrecked and repaired, odometer rolled back, etc. before I owned it.
Had a 77' Electra Limited. 403 Olds motor, 400 Trans .308 Posi. 4bbl quadrajet. That thing was the proverbial couch on wheels. I did throw a rod, but that was me doing dumb kid stuff. Had the block replaced and drove it another 20 years. Sold it to a painter who drove it for at least 5 years after that. Last time I saw it was in the spectator races at Santa Fe Speedway round about 2006.
I did leave my share of bumpers on the road back in the '80's. Things started to go to crap with American cars in the late 70's when they tried to downsize and cut weight. And then there was the 231 V6. Front main bearing, ALL of them... |
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