{"id":18975,"date":"2025-04-12T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-south-carolina-a-once-thriving-textile-hub-is-baffled-by-trumps-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:27:43","slug":"in-south-carolina-a-once-thriving-textile-hub-is-baffled-by-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-south-carolina-a-once-thriving-textile-hub-is-baffled-by-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"In South Carolina, a Once Thriving Textile Hub Is Baffled by Trump\u2019s Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the 1970s, when the Upstate region of South Carolina was known as the textile capital of the world, Adolphus Jones would clock in for grueling summer shifts at one of the many mills in Union, his hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trains roared around him, transporting materials around the country. Chimney stacks on the red brick mills stretched dozens of feet high, like flag poles. This was textile country, and the cities of Union, Spartanburg and Greenville were at the heart of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the end of the 1990s, automation and cheaper labor overseas took the industry away from the state. Union\u2019s economy cratered, as did the most of the region\u2019s. But leaving Sunday church service on a recent afternoon, Mr. Jones, now 71 and retired, scoffed at President Trump\u2019s vision of an American manufacturing revival through tariffs. The mill work had paid little, Mr. Jones recalled, and upward mobility was nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe textile industry is dead,\u201d he said, buttoning his wool suit made in Italy. \u201cWhy would you want to bring it back here? Truthfully, why would the younger generation want to work there?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since taking office, Mr. Trump has imposed and suspended tariffs on imports at breakneck speed, with the goal of forcing companies to bring manufacturing back to the United States. This week, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/business\/economy\/trump-tariff-timeline.html\" title=\"\">he abruptly paused reciprocal tariffs<\/a> for the next three months on some of America\u2019s largest trading partners, dropping levels to a universal 10 percent, while exponentially raising tariffs on Chinese exports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump\u2019s goals have clashed with the current economic reality in places like Spartanburg and Greenville, S.C., heavily Republican areas where foreign companies have turned the onetime textile hubs into wealthy, industrial heavyweights. Should those levies go back into effect, locals worry that they will threaten the very businesses that saved the region, home to some 1.5 million residents, all to revive a bygone industry that few people miss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many retirees still remember what it was like to work in the textile mills. It had a negative connotation, said Rosemary Rice, 70, with some workers derogatively called \u201clint heads\u201d because they would come home covered in cotton shreds. Many developed \u201cbrown lung disease,\u201d or byssinosis, a respiratory condition caused by ingesting dust particles from fabric materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want my son working there,\u201d said Ms. Rice, who lives in Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, companies like BMW and Michelin \u2014 from Germany and France \u2014 are the economic engines of the region. Since BMW opened its plant in Spartanburg County in the early \u201990s, it has invested more than $14.8 billion into its South Carolina operations. The plant has more than 11,000 jobs, its largest single production facility in the world, according to the company. And it is the country\u2019s largest car exporter by value, with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.press.bmwgroup.com\/global\/article\/detail\/T0448301EN\/bmw-manufacturing-continues-as-the-largest-automotive-exporter-by-value-in-the-u-s?language=en\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$10 billion in shipments last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So the local business community was stunned when the White House\u2019s top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, attacked BMW\u2019s manufacturing process in an interview this week. He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sHetw3OSFGk\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told CNBC<\/a> on Monday that \u201cthis business model where BMW and Mercedes come into Spartanburg, S.C., and have us assemble German engines and Austrian transmissions \u2014 that doesn\u2019t work for America. It\u2019s bad for our economics. It\u2019s bad for our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere was widespread bewilderment in our community about that,\u201d said Carlos Phillips, the president and chief executive of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response to Mr. Navarro\u2019s comments, South Carolina\u2019s governor, Henry McMaster, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/henrymcmaster\/status\/1910059694913118515\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a> this week that ever since BMW arrived in the state with well-paying jobs, other companies had followed suit and \u201csent the word out around the world that this is a great manufacturing state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey\u2019ve done a lot of good for South Carolina,\u201d Mr. McMaster, a Republican, said of BMW. Still, the governor has spoken positively about Mr. Trump\u2019s tariffs, saying that he agreed with the president\u2019s goal to make the United States more self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Business leaders have attributed the region\u2019s success partly to South Carolina\u2019s staunchly anti-union stance, and its legacy of a work force familiar with manufacturing. Last year, the governor drew the ire of labor organizers when he criticized unions in his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PDRdbbegVpo\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">State of the State address<\/a>, saying, \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten where we are without them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, leaders say that waging a trade war could undermine future recruitment of international investments and risk losing the jobs that are already in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If tariffs raise prices on products and BMW\u2019s sales drastically drop, they said, there\u2019s a higher chance of layoffs at the Spartanburg plant. And it is difficult to imagine how cheap fabric or yarn manufacturing, the kind made in factories in Vietnam, Cambodia and China, could meaningfully fill the gaps, they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">John Lummus, the president of Upstate SC Alliance, an economic development group, said that the region\u2019s standard of living \u201chas gone up so much more, that unless those companies are much more niche we\u2019re not going to see companies come back and making T-shirts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1970, when there were dozens of textile manufacturers in Spartanburg, Mr. Lummus said, the per capita personal income in Spartanburg was about $3,250. Today, he said, it is about $56,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David Britt, vice chair of the Spartanburg County Council and a Republican who has helped recruit businesses to the county since the \u201990s, including BMW, put the prospect of a textile revival more bluntly: \u201cIt will never come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Remnants of the old world are still visible: In Greenville, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/judsonmilldistrict.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Judson Mill<\/a> was turned into an 800,000-square-foot complex with apartments and retail space. It has an ax-throwing venue and an indoor playground for families. In Spartanburg, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/news\/spartanburg-regionals-administrative-offices-relocate-to-beaumont-mill\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Beaumont Mill<\/a> was transformed into offices for the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Union, which has about 8,000 residents and is about an hour drive from Spartanburg and Greenville, has not fared nearly as well. The sprawling Monarch Mill sits abandoned and for sale near downtown. Weeds have grown and crawled across the building. Less than a mile away is a faded, cracked mural depicting a train with smiling mill workers riding it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Harold E. Thompson, the mayor of Union, said that when the mills completely left in the \u201990s, the unemployment rate rose to about 22 percent. Many residents went to work in other towns, including Spartanburg, where the BMW plant was just opening. Others in the twilight of their lives tried to get by on unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt clawed out a big notch in our economy, and it took us awhile to get it back,\u201d Mr. Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent years, Union County has successfully recruited renewable power companies, bioscience and medical employers, and a Dollar General distribution center that employs nearly a thousand people. The mayor said he was interested in recruiting more well-paying jobs in an effort to curb its 26 percent poverty rate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The textile industry continues to have a minor footprint in the region, but those companies now mostly focus on specialized products, such as fire-retardant or \u201cSunbrella\u201d fabrics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chris Cole, a professor emerita of materials science and engineering at Clemson University, says manufacturing has evolved to the point where it may not even be called textiles. Arthrex Manufacturing in Pendleton, S.C., for example, makes surgical sutures, or threads that surgeons use for stitches, but they are not considered a textile company because the end product is medical, Ms. Cole said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some residents do welcome the possible return of a textile industry, but one that is more modern and high-tech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWith the automation now and better working conditions, I think it would really be attractive to a lot of kids coming out of school who don\u2019t want to go to college,\u201d said Don Harkins, the chairman of the Greenville Textile Heritage Society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leroy Spencer, a retiree in Union whose sister used to work in a mill decades ago, said that \u201cif Trump can bring that back, it would be amazing, and I think the economy would pick up around here and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But building those mills would still require bringing in materials from overseas, which, if Mr. Trump\u2019s aims are realized, would be subject to tariffs and more expensive. \u201cIt\u2019s very convoluted,\u201d Ms. Cole said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Mr. Jones, who before retiring went on to work at Spartanburg Community College teaching job placement and helping people find work, the whole tariff back and forth has been baffling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he worked in a plant decades ago, he made tassels for graduation caps. Now, he says, more of Union\u2019s next generation should be wearing those caps \u2014 not making them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhy would we want to go back?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Audio produced by <!-- -->Adrienne Hurst<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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