South Carolina TV manufacturing plant closes — and says Trump’s tariffs are to blame

Beleaguered Fairfield County is losing another 126 jobs after TV-maker Element Electronics said Monday it will close its Winnsboro plant in response to tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.

The layoffs come a year after Cayce-based SCE&G and state-owned Santee Cooper canceled their decade long effort to build two nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, putting 5,000 construction workers out of work and wiping away a promised economic boon to the poor, rural county.

Element’s announcement also comes a year after Fairfield County’s last textile mill closed, eliminating 200 more jobs.

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