"two simple rules: Buy American and Hire American"
Ironic that HIS OWN businesses follow two simple rules: DON'T buy American and hire American.
Trump, who is president of the Charlottesville vineyard that applied this month for H2 visas for six foreign workers, will soon run the U.S. government, which determines whether to grant those visas.
washingtonpost.com
Trump will hire foreign workers to staff Mar-a-Lago this winter
BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 12/06/16 03:23 PM EST
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Donald Trump will hire foreign workers to staff the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., this winter — as he did last year. .....
According to the Palm Beach Post,Trump won approval from the U.S. Labor Department in October to hire 64 foreign workers through the H-2B visa program, which allows eligible U.S. employers to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary jobs. Trump hired 69 workers through the same program last year.
............. thehill.com
Trump's decade-long record of hiring foreign guest workers
@CNNMoneyJuly 28, 2016: 12:53 PM ET
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In total, records filed at the U.S. Department of Labor and reviewed by CNN reveal that in the last 15 years, Donald Trump's various businesses have been granted approval to import at least 1,256 foreign guest workers.
The guest workers were brought in on a variety of different U.S. visa programs that allow companies to import workers temporarily from overseas.
Trump seems to like his overseas workers to be young and attractive, and with strong specific accents from Romania and South Africa -- countries that convey a well-heeled, exotic appeal, according to numerous former workers interviewed on background.
And Donald Trump especially likes the workers when they are women, who he lavishly tips, according to several of the former workers interviewed.
money.cnn.com
Do as Donald Trump says, not as Ivanka Trump does
President-elect Donald Trump is pledging to punish companies that take jobs overseas. Yet his daughter’s company has already taken them there. According to a Bloomberg News report, Ivanka Trump’s $100 million apparel line “is mostly produced in Asian countries under a licensing agreement with G-III Apparel Group Inc.” Her shoe line, which is also made in China, is said to be moving to Africa, to take advantage of even cheaper labor.
Ivanka’s just doing what Dad does — but doesn’t want others to do. As reported during the campaign, Donald J. Trump-brand shirts and ties are produced in Central America and Asia. And, according to a list compiled last August by The Washington Post, Trump eyeglasses, furniture, mirrors, vases, lighting fixtures, and hotel toiletries, along with multiple other Trump products, are also manufactured overseas.
..............https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/12/06/trump-says-not-ivanka-does/Is8q5c2iFaUhVdHVdcVaoO/story.html
At Saks Off Fifth recently, an Ivanka Trump white polyester and spandex blouse made in Indonesia was marked down to $34.99, from $69. A few racks over, her black and white jacket came from Vietnam, while several blocks away, at Macy’s, her leather bootee manufactured in China sold for more than $100.
At the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, a $35 blue cotton cap embroidered with “Trump National Golf Club” was made in Bangladesh. A Trump Tower hoodie from Pakistan set tourists back $50.
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Ivanka Trump’s company, by contrast, is the type of operation that Mr. Trump is squarely aiming for. Her shoes and dresses largely retail for less than $150. Coats cost as much as $400.
Factored into those prices is the cost of materials and production, as well as shipping, tariffs, marketing and advertising expenses. Cheap production overseas means more coin in the coffers of Ms. Trump and the shoe, accessory and clothing makers that are her partners, among them Marc Fisher footwear, the G-III Apparel Group and Mondani. (Ms. Trump’s company, which is privately held, does not disclose its financials.)
Almost all of her goods are made overseas, according to a New York Times review of shipments compiled separately by Panjiva and ImportGenius, two trade databases. ImportGenius tallied 193 shipments for imported goods associated with Ms. Trump for the year through Dec. 5, mostly Chinese-made shoes and handbags. Her dresses and blouses are made in China, Indonesia and Vietnam, according to a review of hundreds of clothing tags and financial documents filed by G-III.
....... Mr. Trump said in campaign interviews that he would like to make his apparel in the United States, but that it was hard to find companies that did. When George Stephanopoulos of ABC pressed him to explain, Mr. Trump said, “They don’t even make the stuff here.”
That is not exactly true.
B J Nickol, president of the All American Clothing Company, based in Arcanum, Ohio, said he employed 15 people, as well as subcontractors in about 20 states who cut, sew and ship shirts, jeans and sweaters. He estimated it cost All American $10 to $15 to manufacture a polo shirt, including fabric and labor. He sells them for about $28 to $38, or about half of what a polo shirt costs at Trump Tower.
While the company mostly sells shirts to individuals, Mr. Nickol said he would welcome a big-time customer like Mr. Trump. Mr. Nickol said he had witnessed the impact on his community when apparel manufacturers moved away. “And the only way we could think of to fix that was to keep jobs here,” he said.
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