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In some ways that’s what Trump wants. If people can’t buy (afford) the item then they will make it in the US. Once tariffs and markup make it profitable to manufacture in the US then someone will make it there.
However if the raw material or components aren’t available or there is a limited supply (export quota from china) then it will never be adorable to manufacture them in the US. China has already cut some exports to the US along these lines.
Well, the problem here is time. Trump (and the electoral cycle tbh) is so goddamn volatile and supply chains take so long to organize, that a change really is as good as a rest in this case. By the time they manage to re-organize supply chains and get new domestic supply off the ground, it'll be three or four years from now probably, and at the rate things are changing, who fucking knows what things will look like by then. It's just as possible that all this tariff stuff ends tomorrow as it is to persist, so it's safer all around to wait and see.