I support tariffs against foreign goods.
But to the greatest extent possible, we should produce more goods here.
I Support Autarky. Any supply chain problems we have will be more likely to be based on interior supply lines and a heck of a lot easier to work around.
One of my 4 closest friends is an industrial designer. The last 20 years he has been highly involved in plastics molding in China. When they started having “issues” with China around 5 years ago they looked into Viet Nam. The Vietnamese would have been glad to have them. The catch was 20% of production had to stay local. It had to be a product that locals also wanted.
The Trump tariffs accomplished a similar goal. I think for critical infrastructure components (electrical grid components, rare earth metals, chipsets, lithium) That there should be a mandatory minimum domestic production required for national security reasons. If you don’t produce a certain percentage here, you can’t sell anything.