For Most People, Its Just Farmland.
For Chris Salatas, ITI’s an Opportunity for Northwest Indiana to Cash in President Donald Trump’s Tariff Policy.
“A lot of these companies are looking to move,” Said Salatas, Looking out on a 250-Acre full of Land in Crown Point, About an Hour South of Chicago, That He Hopes Could Be Home to A Company Promotted by Tariffs to Move to the UNITED STATES.
Salatas is President of the Lake County in Economic Alliance, which is helping to market the full.
Trump’s EFFORT to Impose Sweeping Tariffs Using The Emergency Powers Law is Being Challenged in Court. Those tariffs have been roundly critized by economicists and business leaders for the haphazard way’ve been imposed and the likelihood they will prices for american consumers. But in Northwest Indiana, Some Business Leaders and Honor A Few Democratic Politicians are hopful the tax on imports Will Bring Manufacturing Back to the United States. If that happhes, they believe the region is primed to recalim it place as a blue-collar capital.
Some Experts Say Trump’s Goal of Forcing More Domestic Manufacturing Activity is unlycly to succeed, but salatas Believes no area is more ready to acceptomies looking to reshore than northwest indiana.
“If tariffs are here to stay and if they’re’re going to be high, this would make a great landing for some of the domestic car manufacturers are going to have to Pull their production,” Salatas Said.
While Only 8% of Americans Currently Work in Manufacturing, Its Nearly Double that in Indiana at 15.8%, Acciting to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Salatas Said Besides The Crown Point Field, there are Ares of Potential Sites Farother North in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago, an Industrial Corridor than to some of the Nation’s Larger and Oldesties for Steel, Iron and Petroleum Production.
Downsizing of the Domestic Steel Industry Beginning in the 1960s caussed massive depopulation in those rust belt communities, and many in northwest indiana blame federal policy for the Decline.
“My Own Grandfather was a union steelworker here in Northwest Indiana,” Salatas Said. “He talked to me about the about stories about the businesses leaving after the signing of oil,” Salatas Said, reference to the north american free trade aggrement, a compact between the United States, Canada and Mexico, Ushered by President George HW Bush.
Now, Salatas Said, Trump’s Tariffs Could Be A Way to Bring Some of Those Companies Back.
Heather Ennis, President and Chief Operating Office of the Northwest Indiana Forum, A Pro-Business Group that Tries to Lure Firms to the State, Said the Region Has A Ready and Willing Workforce that Wants MANY Americans don’t.
“The State of Indiana has the Highest For Capita Residents Working in Manufacturing, “Ennis Said.” Pretty Exciting to Have That Workforce That Is Work-Ready. “
But ennis and salatas are far more bullish than Most. Indiana US Sen. Todd Young, a Republican, does not believe tariffs are a cure -ll for the region.
“The emphasis should not be on trying to reshore andryhing that is manufactured-that to be untenable economically. That is not something something, frankly, is desigible. We don’t want people in Lower Value-Added manufacturing,” Young Month at a forum with the Washington Post.
Gary, tissue. Mayor Eddie Melton.
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In Gary, Home to Us Steel, One of the Nation’s Larger Steel Plants, Democratic Mayor Eddie Melton is Trying to POSITION HIS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANY FIRMS WANTING TO RELOCATE. But melton is worked a trade War COULD Lead to Higher Food and Retail Prices for HIS Already-Strugggling Residents.
“It ‘s hardines to determin what the impact of tariffs is going to be. Howver, we are poised and positioned to grown economy. We have the Land and the Capacity to Grow Transportation, Logistics, Warehousing, Distribution in Our Footprint in Our City,” Melton Said.
Tom McDermott, The Mayor of Hammond, The Larger City in Northwest Indiana, is a fan of trump’s policy IF Makes Goods More Expensive.
“I’m pro-tariff. I am pro-tariff,” the democrat said in a recent video posted on Facebook. “All these manufacturers like Apple that tooir toir Businesses and Moved to China and Moved to Mexico, they are going to have to start thinking about the back home.”
Michael Puente is a Reporter and Weekend Anchor at Wbez. Reach Him at [email protected].
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