The nice feeling of not buy Chinese tools.

[MinnesotaEric]

Umm you need to read a little more.
Aircraft Companies like Boeing are making components offshore now. Boeings newest factory is in Asia.

Boeing to build its first foreign assembly plant | CNN Business

Boeing, the largest US exporter, announced plans Wednesday for its first foreign production plant to perform final assembly work.

www.cnn.com

”Caterpillar Equipment”? They are a multinational company with their most recent factory expansions in China: https://www.caterpillar.com/en/company/global-footprint/apd/china/china-facilities.html

Automobiles? Look at how many plants are being built by GM, Ford in Mexico.
Ford is pretty much moving all manufacturing to Mexico. So is GM & Chrysler

Ford expands in Mexico with a new plant

Ford recently confirmed it will open a new plant in Mexico, upping its bet on Mexico as one of the most sophisticated and fastest developing automobile manufacturing hubs in the world. As Ford expands in Mexico, it is most likely that other automakers will be confident to do the same...

www.tecma.com

Steel? We’re like 5th now in the world. Pathetic. we produce less than 1/10th the steel that China makes!

Top 10 largest Steel Producing Countries in the World

www.steel-technology.com

Computer chips? Again, we are like 5th behind China, Taiwan, Singapore.
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NAFTA destroyed American manufacturing.
American manufacturing has been gone for over 25 years now. What’s left are a few token factories.
In the northeast US rust belt, there’s almost nothing left. Factories plowed under & replaced by bark parks. Railroad tracks torn up and paved over with bike paths.

Real progress

That "Giant sucking sound." Ross Perot was right.

 

[jyoutz]

That "Giant sucking sound." Ross Perot was right.

Building large equipment in the region of sales is pretty common. Look at all the Asian and some European car manufacturing plants in the US. And caterpillar equipment and many AG tractors are made in Asia for sale to those markets. Boeing and Airbus sell aircraft around the world. Why wouldn’t they also manufacture in other facilities around the world for sale to those regional markets?

 

[Hay Dude]

Building large equipment in the region of sales is pretty common. Look at all the Asian and some European car manufacturing plants in the US. And caterpillar equipment and many AG tractors are made in Asia for sale to those markets. Boeing and Airbus sell aircraft around the world. Why wouldn’t they also manufacture in other facilities around the world for sale to those regional markets?

Because if they built them HERE as they did for several decades, more Americans would have good manufacturing jobs.
You can build an aircraft here and literally FLY it to the customer in a few hours

 

[Hay Dude]

That's one reason for higher lumber prices... When Trump was president he put tariffs in place so that US sawmills could compete with lumber coming from Canada. Several mills here have since undergone major expansions, I've seen more investing toward the future in the last 6 years than I have in a long time before that.

Had to go-mean tweets.

 

[Hay Dude]

The US has a lot of automobile factories, especially Asian brands; and even Volkswagen has a new facility in the US. Not so much in the rust belt, but other areas. And yes Mexico produces a lot of vehicles and other products for the US market. Newer facilities are highly automated and don’t employ as many people as in the old days.

And what is the country of ownership of those auto plants located in the US?
GERMANY????

Some globalism is necessary, of course, but submitting to it 100% like the US has does not benefit the US.

 

[jyoutz]

And what is the country of ownership of those auto plants located in the US?
GERMANY????

Some globalism is necessary, of course, but submitting to it 100% like the US has does not benefit the US.

Lots of US workers employed there.

 

[jyoutz]

Because if they built them HERE as they did for several decades, more Americans would have good manufacturing jobs.
You can build an aircraft here and literally FLY it to the customer in a few hours

Give it up. Wall street changed US manufacturing decades ago. Maximum shareholder returns became the norm after Jack Welch led the way (and wrecked General Electric).

 

[Hay Dude]

Give it up. Wall street changed US manufacturing decades ago. Maximum shareholder returns became the norm after Jack Welch led the way (and wrecked General Electric).

No, I won’t ”give it up”.
NAFTA ruined American manufacturing.
I will keep voting for politicans who‘s main objective is to make America strong and independent from China once again.

 

[jyoutz]

No, I won’t ”give it up”.
NAFTA ruined American manufacturing.
I will keep voting for politicans who‘s main objective is to make America strong and independent from China once again.

Politicians come and go but Wall Street continues business as usual. People give politicians too much credit or blame, but corporate boards make the business decisions.

 

[Jstpssng]

Had to go-mean tweets.

It was more than that.