No. You’re not thinking clearly. It’s not just a choice. It’s not just spending money. The machines to run the factories will need to be imported because we don’t make them here. That means the cost of building a factory gets higher and higher as the tarrifs go higher and higher. That’s a contradiction they can’t easily escape from. But further, they couldn’t get a factory with imported machines built in under 2 years, so it’s easier for them to business putsch than it is reshore.
If they decide to build everything from scratch in the US, it would take a decade, and the raw materials would have to be imported.
No amount of Trump’s arbitrary and capricious action can make this happen.
No. You’re not thinking clearly. It’s not just a choice. It’s not just spending money. The machines to run the factories will need to be imported because we don’t make them here. That means the cost of building a factory gets higher and higher as the tarrifs go higher and higher. That’s a contradiction they can’t easily escape from. But further, they couldn’t get a factory with imported machines built in under 2 years, so it’s easier for them to business putsch than it is reshore.
If they decide to build everything from scratch in the US, it would take a decade, and the raw materials would have to be imported.
No amount of Trump’s arbitrary and capricious action can make this happen.