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Vishnu and the tariffs

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Dragongoatrapgod
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Has anyone heard anything about what Vishnu plans to do about the tariffs? They make their skis in a Chinese factory is my understanding of the situation. Can they be made in the USA if the tariffs go into effect or will the price be doubled.


Honestly so depressing and annoying for a company like Vishnu to have to go through that. Are those tariffs really going to help the economy so much like wtf. I don’t really know that much about the economy so I’m speaking more so from a spot of annoyance of the situation.

**This thread was edited on Apr 25th 2025 at 11:26:20pm
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VISHNU
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I too am annoyed
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beancho
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if youre a skier and voted for trump gtfo, there are consequences to being an idiot and now the whole community has to pay :(
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X_MEMESWERVE_XX
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pissboy
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chrisckif youre a skier and voted for trump gtfo, there are consequences to being an idiot and now the whole community has to pay :(


“I prefer my goods manufactured in regions where there are no labor protections”
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lurking
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gnarley_marl“I prefer my goods manufactured in regions where there are no labor protections”


I guarantee "more labor protections" weren't listed as a positive thing in Trump's pros & cons reviewing trade policy.
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pissboy
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lurkingI guarantee "more labor protections" weren't listed as a positive thing in Trump's pros & cons reviewing trade policy.


You can convince yourself of whatever you need to feel good about the world you live in. A real and verifiable truth of open borders and free trade is the production of goods shifting to nations with limited or no labor protections. Do you think it’s any small coincidence that all your soft and hard goods are made in Bangladesh, China, and Vietnam?
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pissboy
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https://www.unicef.org/vietnam/child-labour




You can easily verify that many ski goods are manufactured in the third world, and your cognitive dissonance won’t change that.
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pissboy
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If you thumbs down my posts in this thread you are a fucking zero brain cell idiot. Literal children with no concept of the world
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NightGoblin
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Maybe you’re just fucking annoying, Snowflake :)
gnarley_marlIf you thumbs down my posts in this thread you are a fucking zero brain cell idiot. Literal children with no concept of the world
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pissboy
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And you’re probably 15
NightGoblinMaybe you’re just fucking annoying, Snowflake :)
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NightGoblin
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gnarley_marlAnd you’re probably 15

EZ catch, fellas should I toss him back or hit him with the flashlight

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Christian_Bale
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gnarley_marlhttps://www.unicef.org/vietnam/child-labour




You can easily verify that many ski goods are manufactured in the third world, and your cognitive dissonance won’t change that.

yeah we all know this. it's terrible. what feasible alternative would you propose? Bring back all the manufacturing to the US? Doesn't the US import close to half a trillion $ worth of goods from China per year? that's not gonna change in a meaningful way
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Disvo
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chrisckif youre a skier and voted for trump gtfo, there are consequences to being an idiot and now the whole community has to pay :(


liberals snowboard not ski get out of here guy
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pissboy
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Christian_Baleyeah we all know this. it's terrible. what feasible alternative would you propose? Bring back all the manufacturing to the US? Doesn't the US import close to half a trillion $ worth of goods from China per year? that's not gonna change in a meaningful way


That’s exactly the solution. Pay high prices for goods made under proper regulations and labor laws.
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Paul.
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gnarley_marlThat’s exactly the solution. Pay high prices for goods made under proper regulations and labor laws.


Yeah we should be working towards that, but rapidly introducing and repealing ridiculous tariffs is causing chaos and uncertainty in our economy and it will result in the failure of many small businesses. These things take time. Businesses cant just shift their manufacturing instantly. There needs to be a clear plan in place with a reasonable timeline before action is taken. Right now businesses are holding their breaths because tomorrow tariffs could double or maybe they'll disappear entirely
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hi_vis360
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gnarley_marlThat’s exactly the solution. Pay high prices for goods made under proper regulations and labor laws.


Straight up that isn’t what people want though, everyone on here loves to piss and moan about how expensive on3ps are (I think they’re worth it)
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Biffbarf
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hi_vis360Straight up that isn’t what people want though, everyone on here loves to piss and moan about how expensive on3ps are (I think they’re worth it)


People 'want' workers to get paid fair living wages until it makes their goods and services more expensive. Money talks and BS walks, turns out most people don't give a shit if 8yr old pingping huffs epoxy fumes and glass dust all day as long as their skis are $XXX instead of $XXXX.
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hi_vis360
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BiffbarfPeople 'want' workers to get paid fair living wages until it makes their goods and services more expensive. Money talks and BS walks, turns out most people don't give a shit if 8yr old pingping huffs epoxy fumes and glass dust all day as long as their skis are $XXX instead of $XXXX.


Yeah exactly, like I’m down to pay the premium price for made in USA shit but I reeeealy think most people aren’t. I’ve only met a couple trump supporter park skiers, they both rode vishnus!
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abjectwoe
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hi_vis360Straight up that isn’t what people want though, everyone on here loves to piss and moan about how expensive on3ps are (I think they’re worth it)


100%

And guess what, ON3Ps are probably going to also become more expensive because of tariffs.

So to all the "bUy AmErIcAn" people are just straight up crazy. So many inputs in US manufactured goods come from elsewhere.

It's 2025. Dudes out here acting like we should be Edo period Japan and completely isolate.

There is a thing in economics called comparative advantage.

There is a world in which ON3P and Vishnu can both exist and be successful.

We can also make/grow more things in the US while ensuring there are labor standards with our trading partners. None of these things are mutually exclusive.

Politicians and billionaires are just fucking us in the ass: a tale as old as time.
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Biffbarf
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abjectwoe100%

And guess what, ON3Ps are probably going to also become more expensive because of tariffs.

So to all the "bUy AmErIcAn" people are just straight up crazy. So many inputs in US manufactured goods come from elsewhere.

It's 2025. Dudes out here acting like we should be Edo period Japan and completely isolate.

There is a thing in economics called comparative advantage.

There is a world in which ON3P and Vishnu can both exist and be successful.

We can also make/grow more things in the US while ensuring there are labor standards with our trading partners. None of these things are mutually exclusive.

Politicians and billionaires are just fucking us in the ass: a tale as old as time.


You're retarded.
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abjectwoe
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BiffbarfYou're retarded.


Thanks!
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pissboy
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that’s the sad reality of our world. People act as if they support equality and these ideals until it affects their bottom line
BiffbarfPeople 'want' workers to get paid fair living wages until it makes their goods and services more expensive. Money talks and BS walks, turns out most people don't give a shit if 8yr old pingping huffs epoxy fumes and glass dust all day as long as their skis are $XXX instead of $XXXX.
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pissboy
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I ride vishnus because I wanted light flappy park skis but I’m seriously considering getting on3ps if they’re American made. I guess I just didn’t know.
hi_vis360Yeah exactly, like I’m down to pay the premium price for made in USA shit but I reeeealy think most people aren’t. I’ve only met a couple trump supporter park skiers, they both rode vishnus!
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hi_vis360
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gnarley_marlI ride vishnus because I wanted light flappy park skis but I’m seriously considering getting on3ps if they’re American made. I guess I just didn’t know.


dude this is exactly my point lol
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pissboy
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I didn’t pick them for price point just for function. I can afford American made skis
hi_vis360dude this is exactly my point lol
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hi_vis360
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gnarley_marlI didn’t pick them for price point just for function. I can afford American made skis


globalization definitely offers a wider variety of skis it would be crazy if we could only buy American made skis
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TOAST.
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gnarley_marlI ride vishnus because I wanted light flappy park skis but I’m seriously considering getting on3ps if they’re American made. I guess I just didn’t know.


How do you not know on3ps are American made? Do you live under a rock?
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pissboy
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focusing on other things. look at my account age vs number of posts…
TOAST.How do you not know on3ps are American made? Do you live under a rock?
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Biffbarf
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gnarley_marlfocusing on other things. look at my account age vs number of posts…


Wild you dodged a pretty huge part of NS lore. Props for not being a shitposting degen like the rest of us lingerers after all these years. Peep the thread if you want to want to see the start of on3p, they've been handmade in USA since. Moment is also American made if you didn't know

[URL]https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/388095/ON3P-Skis?page=1[/URL]
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pissboy
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crazy. I guess I was sort of superficially aware but never saw the thread. That would have been right around the time I joined the site and started skiing as well.

I wonder what sort of top sheets @iggyskier would tolerate for custom skis
BiffbarfWild you dodged a pretty huge part of NS lore. Props for not being a shitposting degen like the rest of us lingerers after all these years. Peep the thread if you want to want to see the start of on3p, they've been handmade in USA since. Moment is also American made if you didn't know

[URL]https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/388095/ON3P-Skis?page=1[/URL]


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SSteezle
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Does it make sense that everything we buy needs to be shipped across the world to get to us? There's never been more incentive to make things in the USA. USA company are finally getting the praise they always should have got. Funny how most liberals don't seem to mind slave labor in china or shipping their toothbrush over 10,000 miles when they cry about climate change.
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abjectwoe
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SSteezleDoes it make sense that everything we buy needs to be shipped across the world to get to us?

No, it doesn't make sense.
There's never been more incentive to make things in the USA.

Tariffs are an indirect and coercive negative "incentive" in this case. A positive incentive would have been tax breaks, grants, subsidies, etc for businesses that produce goods in the USA -- which is ideally what would have been done. A) Reward businesses like ON3P for what they have been doing B) Maybe Vishnu could start making skis in the USA C) have further positive incentives for starting to source more and more goods from the USA once production is here.

It's actually not difficult to make things here if you aren't corrupt like our last two presidents have been.
USA company are finally getting the praise they always should have got.

@Biffbarf says I'm a retard, so I could be wrong, but Made In America has been kind of a big deal for awhile.
Funny how most liberals don't seem to mind slave labor in china or shipping their toothbrush over 10,000 miles when they cry about climate change.

Again, I might be a retard so it's hard for me to grasp these concepts, but I'm pretty sure slave labor and the environmental impact of China has been a talking point for both liberals and conservatives.

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isaacwrong
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What the consensus on purchasing from a canadian warehouse? Does the de minimis apply for items shipping across borders into the us?
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