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Staying in Eastern Europe would have severely exposed Fish's business to tariffs
“If we were still manufacturing in Eastern Europe, we'd be getting murdered on tariffs right now, and the volatility of tariffs, and how that changes almost on a daily basis.”
Fish: European-style security doors and windows were never made in the US
“These types of doors and windows that we make have never been made in the U.S.”
Giving a failing overseas supplier blank checks prevented an immediate collapse
“There was an interim period there where it was cheaper for me to take a big financial risk by giving them a blank check, effectively, rather than rolling the dice and them potentially collapsing, and then I don't have A supplier. Until I could bring my own fac…”
Fish withdrew ATM cash in Eastern Europe to pay factory sub-suppliers
“On, on one trip over there, I had to go around with my engineer, and with another guy, and we went to all the suppliers, and I paid them cash. I was running to an ATM taking out cash to pay these suppliers in Eastern Europe. So that we could bring back the mat…”