USA is stupid to have these countries make our medicines! Why don’t we have them make our furniture or plastic bags or clothes instead of medicines.
I don’t understand our leaders.
“Why don’t we have them make our furniture or plastic bags or clothes instead of medicines.”
The furniture industry went to China in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s along with the textile and apparel industries.
One would think pharmaceutical production would be highly automated and not labor intensive. Therefore the savings from producing in China and India would be relatively small. Could it be pharmaceuticals followed the chemical industry offshore? When raw materials were no longer available in the US it made sense to locate the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals where chemicals could be obtained. Chemicals likely moved offshore due to heavy regulation.
The ugly truth is that China in the 1990’s and 2000’s targeted specific industries in US supply chains. They knew that when key components moved offshore, the rest of the supply chain would follow.