Most shoppers prefer to buy American. But given a choice between an American-made product and a cheaper import from China, Mexico or another low-wage country, they’ll usually go for the bargain. That’s one reason millions of American factory workers have lost their jobs.
In last year’s presidential election, Donald Trump put the collapse of American manufacturing center stage. He pledged to take on China — our biggest trade rival — and to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada. At rallies in Indiana and Pennsylvania, he told crowds that “we cannot continue to allow China to rape our country” and “there are no jobs because China has our jobs.” He warned upstate New Yorkers were being “horribly, horribly hurt by NAFTA.”
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