I wish we could fix whatever prevents this from happening at scale in Mexico, too (with some high value production in the US and potentially Canada as well, and maybe some other supplies coming from the elsewhere in the Americas.). I wonder if it is infrastructure, regulation, labor, or what.
I remember seeing a chart a while back that said the actual cost of manufacturing in China is roughly the same as in the US, one has much lower labor costs and the other much lower energy costs. At the time at least it was posited the benefit of China manufacturing was co-location of suppliers and shorter supply chains. edit: [1] lists a BCG report from roughly when I was thinking and references a slightly earlier Bl…
I doubt that a modern American worker will give you much higher quality than a Chinese worker, and the American will be very expensive.