Yeah, for those foreign firms to manufacture goods from US companies in order to fill Walmarts and number go up.
Manufacture goods from US companies? Do you mean "for"?
Honest q, 3rd party crashing in: does it make a difference? My assumption is not for parsing for understanding and grammatically, its fine, if significantly less common than the “for” construct.
I'm just trying to understand what point they are trying to make