Thats part of the problem and it feeds on itself.
The downside to our economy and domestic manufacturing is very real
The Berry and Kissel regulations specify American suppliers and american produced content for military procurement to help maintain our network strategic domestic suppliers.
You have no idea how hard it can be to manufacture to Berry specs because of a lack of domestically produced products. It is, in fact, all but impossible to be totally Berry compliant from the ground up because of lack of a domestic supplier for every single part of the process
We worked hard to rebuild our network of critical domestic suppliers when the War on Terrorism exposed just how bad our manufacturing capability had been eroded but much of those rebuilding effort and the investments made were significantly wiped out by the disastrous budget sequester deal that killed off many new suppliers
We need a really high uniform across the board import tariff. Then get out of the way.