I checked..... Americans like to buy stuff that is not too expensive for their budgets.
Everybody that matters knows that “free Trade” actually means”free er trade.”
BTW...... I have a friend that retired from a very good job. Being tired of sitting around, he found a new one that is mostly part time. He works for a funeral home moving bodies around. There is considerable inter mortuary traffic that requires his services. Sometimes when business is too good, he puts his suit back on and helps with the funeral.
Wealth is created by making stuff. Or more correctly making stuff other people would like to have. The more (good) stuff you make the more wealth you have created. Cars, corn, casinos, whatever were all made by somebody or a group of somebodies. While gold bars or barrels of oil were not "made" they were discovered and processed into a usable product by somebody so I am going to throw them into the same bucket as the (good) stuff somebody made. There is no other way to create wealth other than making stuff. Everybody not involved in making stuff is just getting a slice of the wealth created by somebody making stuff.
A doctor maybe preforming a valuable service by saving your life but he has not created any wealth. Dido the bartender that hands you a beer after a hard day of bashing Trump.
Does our trade policy encourage us make more stuff here or does it encourage our producers to produce else where?
Ok lets do the math. Making stuff produces wealth our trade policy encourages our producers to produce else where. Ergo our trade policy is causing us (USA) to lose wealth. Put another way we are getting poorer while the productive nations (China) are getting richer.
:) logic is your friend.
Yes there are other reasons manurfactoring and jobs are fleeing the USA but trade our policy is not helping producers here at home in the least.