Why Did The National People Boycott New Balance After Trump Was Elected President?

After President Trump was elected president,

Matthew LeBretton LeBretton, vice president of public affairs, told reporters: "the Obama administration doesn't listen to us at all. Now that Trump is elected, we feel that things are finally back to normal."

This sentence immediately caused a great stir on social networking sites.

The half of the US who did not vote for Trump rushed into the Facebook home page of New Balance and launched boycott activities. Many of them were buyers of New Balance.

On Twitter and Instagram, people upload all kinds of pictures and videos of throwing shoes into trash cans, toilets and even setting fire to shoes.

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"I will never buy New Balance shoes anymore," a consumer wrote angrily. "I will spread the news to as many people as possible."

The New Balance is a bit of a grievance. The vice president's statement is actually not right. It's just because some of their positions are the same as Trump: they oppose the p Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).

It is the most significant free-trade agreement in the world after the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 12 countries in the Pacific Rim have reached an agreement in 2 months this year after 10 years of negotiations and have not yet come into force.

It is considered to be an important part of the Obama administration's Asian strategy.

However, there are many criticisms in the United States that the agreement will only bring benefits to the enterprises, but may lead to a large number of job opportunities flowing to the developing countries in the region, damaging the domestic industry and the employment market.

This is also the reason why New Balance opposes the agreement.

The company, which has 5 factories and employs 1400 people, accuses TPP of hurting its own local manufacturing and making the competitors relying on overseas factories full of money. Obviously, this competition is Nike for fingers.

Once the agreement comes into effect, it has a large number of overseas factories.

It will benefit from all kinds of reduced trade barriers, so they have always been supporters of TPP.

New Balance said in a statement issued on Thursday, "as the only company that still produces sports shoes in the US, New Balance has a special attitude towards the agreement, that is, we want to create more shoes in the United States, not less."

At the same time, they said they had always supported politicians who opposed the agreement, not just Trump, but also Democratic candidates Hilary and Saunders were in the same camp with them.

The anti TPP demonstrations had been held at the previous Democratic rally, so today's situation is a bit subtle, and many people's attitude is very complicated.

Inasentimentalmood, a user named in Instagram, wrote, "I agree with you against the position of TPP, but it is frustrating to support a person who spreads hatred like Trump." and a Matty Hervey in Facebook said, "I am not a supporter of Trump, nor have I voted for him. But when I learned that NB objected to TPP, I decided to buy his shoes from now on."