Many things that are made in China don’t HAVE an American-made alternative.
When’s the last time you saw an American-made DVD player, or television?
That is simply because the tax situation and the WalMart-like pricing pressures made it impractical to manufacture in this country. Basically, we engineered the stuff and then gave it all away. The profits go to the middle man in great big globs. You know, the ones who neither designed or manufactured the stuff. You are paying a higher price for junk. The difference between the manufacturing cost and the sales cost goes to the middle man.
Let me give you a real world example. Sears power hand tools used to be manufactured by the Singer Company. (Until the price pressure drove them under.) Singer made a 1 HP router for $7.28, which was too much according to Sears. Sears sold the router to the public for $78.00. (This is back in 1980)
Retailers killed our Nation far more than any taxation. The taxes merely killed off whatever tiny margin was left to the manufacturers.