(08-15-2024, 10:14 AM)Jagwired Wrote:

(08-15-2024, 10:13 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: What if, for example, Ford Motor Company could send someone over to check how they are making the steel they are buying?  I think that would be a pretty easy thing to do.

Hence my last sentence above.

I think most Americans do not mind paying a premium for USA built products.

Respectfully disagree.  If this were the case, then we wouldn't see so many foreign cars on the roads today.  I understand many foreign names have manufacturing jobs here but there is an immense amount of foreign cars and other products that are booming in the US.   Just look at Temu ..... people want what they consider great value and that starts with a great price, with an "acceptable" level of quality.   This is pretty much why knockoffs are banned in the US; they'd put our premium  companies like LV and G out of business.

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