Next to no filters, heaters, pumps or other equipment for aquariums are manufactured in the US. And won’t be anytime soon. Expect higher prices - Chinese tariffs are still in place.
Hello; Such is the state of the working world that so profound a statement is also much too common. In my longest running job I got 10 sick days a year. Even after a major surgery on myself and having to take some days off for a sick wife I had nearly a years' worth of sick days accumulated. There was a sick day bank we could donate sick days to for which the idea was someone in dire straits could borrow days if they ran out. A thing was a regular few were always short of days and not because of serious illness. They just took days off because they could.
I’m glad for all the lazy/do the minimum cvnts out there, so easy to out compete them, take their clients/jobs etc. Ive lived in only 2 continents and 3 countries, but I’ve live in 3 states in Australia. Every time I’ve worked my way up to the nearest top of each profession, from a Chef to civil construction to survey and now geophysics. But it’s a pain in the ass when it comes to employees.I certainly agree with not overpaying for things, and maximizing the stretch of our hard earned money. Unfortunately we are at the mercy of governments of every type globally in that respect
I was actually speaking more to a “do less, get paid more, pay less” mentality.
At the end of the day each worker has got to bring more value to the business they are getting paid by in order to justify the position they hold. I have worked with countless people who wanna come to work for someone else, spend their whole shift on tic toc or IG and whine and complain about having to be there as “a slave to the man”. So tiring…
Hello; I repeat that i have been in the hobby a long time. Since 1959. I witnessed the way so many things moved out of the USA to be made. I use to be able to buy USA made stuff. This was not an accident of any sort as most understand. Moving manufacture out of country became business as usual. Wish I knew of a perfect analogy to describe the big crisis looming if that "business as usual" continues. We are moving toward a cliff edge. Perhaps a lemming analogy might partially work . Work in that we picture a long line of lemmings at the cliff edge with some already fallen into the abyss long ago. More lemmings (in country manufacturing) fall over day by day. The closing of plants with the loss of jobs has become so business as usual that such is hardly remarked upon.
I’ve been keeping aquariums for a long time as well. The point is that the tariffs (taxes) that we’ve imposed on ourselves will make *nearly all* aquarium equipment more expensive. Whether and when manufacturing of aquarium equipment comes back to the US is to be determined. But if it does, it certainly won’t make filters, heaters, pumps, etc any cheaper.
This is merely your opinion, which you are entitled too, but it’s not a factual statement. No company would bother risking the start up expenses if producing equipment onshore would mean they couldn’t compete with the international production market on pricing. This is the most basic business principle. Of course where the tariffs end up once the dust settles is relevant to this economic equation. Like you say, whether or not aquarium equipment production will happen within the US is yet to be seen. If retailers are being honest, German equipment prices should drop once the 0% EU tariff goes into effect. If that makes high quality German equipment cheaper than the Chinese stuff, China would have to decrease costs to compete. This is a win win for hobbyists.
Have you or anyone on here ever purchased one of those products? What percent of global market share do us manufactured products represent?
