There was a knife in Victor Lytvinenko’s face. An old woman was holding it closely up to him, only threatening in the way any knife near your face would be. It was more of a flex. The woman had just bought a $450 knife and Lytvinenko scoffed at the price. “You Americans are so stupid,” Lytvinenko remembers her responding. “You’ll buy twenty $20 knives in your lifetime and never own a good one.” This was some time ago in Switzerland, just a year before Lytvinenko would create his American-made Raleigh Denim brand with co-founder Sarah Yarborough. Like other Made in America brands, it’s based on the ideal that things made here are high-quality and worth investing in, like a fancy knife you wanna shove in someone’s face.

That’s also the idea behind Donald Trump and the White House’s current Made in America Week. It’s a time to honor the companies who continue to make their products domestically despite mounting difficulties, and definitely in no way meant to distract from the ongoing Russia investigation. When I first caught wind of the theme week, I started reaching out to brands in order to find out what it’s like to be a made in America company during Made in America Week. I spoke with 12 of them.

Trump’s Made in America Week Shows Us Why Nothing Is Made in America Anymore Unless, of course, you're making fancy cowboy hats.

Of the 11 that were willing to comment, none said they got a heads-up that a week nominally celebrating their businesses was coming down the pipeline and none felt optimistic they were in a better place as an American-made brand thanks to the Trump administration or its policies. (Only New Balance declined to comment on the subject.). The idea something positive’s coming is “something we would both laugh out loud at, to be honest,” Courtenay Nearburg and Mike Rubin, the founders of Krammer & Stoudt told me over email.

Instead, several of the brands I spoke with felt more anxiety about what Trump’s policies would do to hurt their American-made brands. New York-based Battenwear is worried what would happen if the President hurts NAFTA or other trade agreements, like ones the U.S. has with Korea and Australia. “These are all good trade partnerships that I think we stand to have damaged,” says Battenwear co-founder Carrie Hasegawa. 60 to 70 percent of Battenwear’s customers are international, so the brand stands to lose a majority of its business because Trump can’t conduct a phone call without pissing off a major ally.

The Cost of Being Made in America

Then there are those who worry about how they will continue to make products in America if they can’t import materials—materials they just cannot get here—without paying a massive tariff. Turns out producing in America is like most good things: difficult, but worth it. It would be quicker for me to list the pieces that the brands I spoke with said could absolutely be made in the U.S. rather than tick off the things that are downright impossible to produce here. At least one brand mentioned problems finding facilities to make high-quality sweater knits, tailored suiting, leather goods, and shirting. Factories that can work with technical materials like Gore-Tex are also in short supply. Only New Balance, which operates five factories in New England, doesn’t have difficulties with sneakers. On a more foundational level, raw materials like yarn are impossible to source here as are items you would have thought were incredibly basic, like pocket linings and buttons. “Tees, fleece, and denim” is what the U.S. is good at, says Baldwin founder Matt Baldwin.

A dearth of raw materials already pose problems for businesses and brands are worried Trump’s policies will exacerbate that. Eunice Lee, founder of New York-based Unis, which produces in both the U.S. and Portugal, is concerned about how a tax on a yarn she needs to import from Mexico will affect her product. (The yarn “just doesn’t exist here anymore, she says.) She’d pay more for the T-shirt so customers would also have to pay more. “People struggle with the price points I’m even in right now,” says Lee. Unis’ “Lee” T-shirt retails for $52.