how does a small US manufacturer compete when a foreign producer can duplicate 70–80% of the functional product at a fraction of the cost?

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pessimizer an hour ago | parent [-]

They can't. But how is that unfair? It's literally a choice we made.

And it's the one thing that unites every mainstream politician against Trump - they can't agree on tons of stuff, other than that we definitely should not be using tariffs to defend local manufacturers against Chinese (or any other) imports. I've been assured that those jobs are "not coming back." Well, big surprise - they're also not going to stop disappearing.

	▲	firesteelrain 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I agree some policy choices were made to get us in this situation. Biden largely left the first Trump era tariffs in place. The disagreements are on the broadness of them