特朗普关税下，海波因特的沙发厂只开了十个月

An American boss opened a factory in the US, making sofas.

Ten months later, he closed this factory.

This boss is called Bruce Krinsky.

He and his wife started a company together, selling sofas.

Their sofas were previously made in China, selling for 900 dollars each.

Later, the US made things coming from China pay more money.

So, he asked a Chinese company to go to Vietnam to open a factory.

After a few months, the Vietnam factory opened.

There are 130 people in the factory.

There is a worker named Nguyen Van Hai, he makes sofas.

He works ten hours a day, six days a week.

A year, he can get 8,000 dollars.

He says: this money is really high.

But later, the US said, things coming from Vietnam also have to pay more money.

Krinsky thought: then I'll go back to the US to make sofas.

He found a factory in High Point, North Carolina.

He bought this factory, spending zero dollars.

In the US, to make a sofa, the workers' pay is a lot.

The money to buy cloth and wood is also a lot, adding up to 1,000 dollars.

In Vietnam, a sofa only costs 280 dollars.

American workers make two or three sofas a day.

In Vietnam, workers make ten a day.

He originally thought, sell a sofa for 1,500 dollars.

But this way, he would lose more than 100 dollars per sofa.

The money from selling is less than the money to make the sofa.

A sofa has to sell for 2,000 dollars for him not to lose money.

He said: selling for 2,000 dollars, we have no reason to keep doing it.

On the last day of July, he closed this factory.

45 people have no job.

In ten months, he lost 3 million dollars.

He said: "An American company, what should it do now?"

In High Point, there is another factory making sofas, selling for 3,000 to 5,000 dollars each.

Now, seven out of ten of Krinsky's sofas are made in Vietnam.