新闻来源：www.wsj.com
原文地址：The Family Business in Alabama That Fights China for Survival
新闻日期：2024-09-08
莱茵市（LEEDS），阿拉巴马——72岁的米尔顿·马格努斯拿起电话，试图说服客户继续使用他生产的钢丝衣架，而不是转用更便宜的亚洲产品。
马格努斯挂完电话后目光有些疲惫，当他不考虑自己的产品时，就会浏览美国的一份货物数据库，努力分辨这些来自中国的还是其他国家用中国钢材制造的钢丝衣架。
卡车隆隆驶过，前往莱茵市的钢丝衣架工厂。不过，经济好转时它们来的次数更多一些。
原文摘要：
LEEDS, Ala.—In a squat, beige building attached to a factory that churns out steel wire hangers, Milton Magnus was on the phone again, trying to persuade customers to stick with him, rather than switching to cheaper hangers from Asia.When Magnus, 72 years old, hung up the phone, he peered at a database of shipments to the U.S. His eyes were tired. When he wasn’t thinking about his own hangers, he was tracking all the other hangers flowing in, trying to tell whether they were from China or made in another country using Chinese steel. Trucks rumbled past to deliver rolls of steel wire, though they came more often when times were better.
