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When you ask Katrina McAvoy if she blames her job loss on tariffs, she has just one answer.
I don't see how you cannot.
When they're saying it's easier for them to make money eating the cost of the tariffs than to keep people employed.
We're sitting just outside the doors of a factory owned by her employer, for now, Conselmer.
They make brass instruments like trumpets and trombones in Eastlake, Ohio, a 20-minute drive from Cleveland.
Katrina is wearing a Conselmer t-shirt under a red cardigan, but the shirt isn't especially important to her.
Nope, I have several in the closet, and then I guess they just get donated once we close.
I don't know.
I don't want to put it back on.
At the end of June, Conselmer says all 150 employees at the plant will be terminated.
It's moving much of the operation offshore to China.
Katrina and her colleagues got their notices the same day I spoke with her.
My uncle, who is getting close to 80, this was one of his first jobs.
How did you feel about the president's terrorists before the closure of this plan?
I didn't think it was a good idea at all.
We're supposed to, you know, it's to the point where you can't find anything where it says made in America anymore.
And I think that's sad for the country in a whole.
Of course, made in America is the whole point of President Trump's tariffs in his telling.