up from what? from when. From what year to what year.
Pick your year. Manufacturing right now is a higher percentage of our GDP than it was just prior to WWII, a time when we were considered to be a great industrial might. It’s manufacturing JOBS that are disappearing not manufacturing, and that’s because of automation. Do things move offshore? Of course, but other things come onshore. Things get built where it makes the most sense to build them, and there’s a lot that goes into making some place the right place. Some of those things we can change, like ending abusive taxation, and simplifying the EPA. Some we can’t, like distance from supplies and market (contrary to popular belief not everything gets sold here, we buy a lot, but it’s a big planet).