The question to ask is are we able to ship items to these countries without having to pay a fee for items under the 800.00 dollar mark? I highly doubt it , and anything that will attract any manufacturing back to our shores is needed badly. I also do not forget the simple fact that our own politicians / government aided and abetted the purge of manufacturing from America to overseas and created the situation.
100%. I did business for many years with China. Try shipping something / anything in a parcel to China. Chinese Customs is guaranteed to open the box, open the package inside (even if it means destroying it), and require every possible shipping document, testing document, and local customs permission possible.
They make it extremely difficult to ship any parcel there, even zero-value industrial samples. Forget about running a sales business in such a way. Its absolutely impossible.