Sure, they can build it here—but protectionism doesn’t deliver long-term success.
In the short term, it drives up prices and makes consumers poorer.
In the long run, tariffs shield companies from global competition and limit their ability to scale. Without that pressure or opportunity, businesses grow weaker—not stronger.
In the short term, it drives up prices and makes consumers poorer. In the long run, tariffs shield companies from global competition and limit their ability to scale. Without that pressure or opportunity, businesses grow weaker—not stronger.
That weakens U.S. industry, not strengthens it.