[VRWCmember]

Manufacturing is special and is a major wealth creation engine of the economy.

That is only true to the extent that the goods being manufacture enjoy a comparative advantage in opportunity costs of production. Tariffs distort true opportunity costs of production, and might benefit a particular industry to the detriment of the overall local economy.

[central_va]

That is only true to the extent that the goods being manufacture enjoy a comparative advantage in opportunity costs of production.

Eploiting suicidal slave labor is now called "comparative advantage in opportunity cost".