“It should help these companies re-consider their choices on where their products are made.”
I suspect the order of the day will be to ignore this as an unusual event and keep on using China to save on mfg costs. The short term gain is what matters.
I would support any bill that would force all product ingredients and components for any American company that sells essential consumer products (not cell phones or TVs)in the U.S., but manufactures primarily in China, to be filed with DC, where in the event they cannot deliver goods to this market, that access to those trade secrets can be loaned to majority domestic companies to manufacture at no charge to them.
And that a tariff fee is assessed to be used for the construction of automated manufacturing plants in the U.S. that can be activated within a month to turn-out product if needed.
In-fact, delivery drones, 3D printing, automation, and self-driving cars are now things I fully get behind.
It doesnt have to “take over”, it just needs to be there.
Even for the American company that manufactured surgical masks, moved their equipment to china to save labor costs, saw their company confiscated/nationalized by the chinese, etc? Even for them?