There is some broken thinking that high wages will increase consumer cost but replacing humans with cheaper robots won't, cherry-picking armchair cause-and-effect thinking to fit a "this is bad" narrative.
Reducing trade frictions forces economic equality, especially when that reduction is tied towards some equality metric, like wages.
Products being cheap because of economic disparity in trading partners isn't something to celebrate or bemoan the loss of. What is good for our neighbors is good for us. So many people are arguing from both sides at the same time.
The jaw of comparative advantage tells us that unrestrained trade benefits both parties. It means we get to deploy our workforce into higher value and higher paying jobs, while they get to increase their standard of living as well.
The US has caused so much uncountable suffering with its middle east policy, half the country is obese due in part to taking advantage of the dollar reserve status, and its politicians with Wall St. sold out most of the American workers for a quick buck (now these workers are all killing themselves with drugs or from joining the military to protect other countries borders).
Reputation needs to drop much more to reflect the situation.
Over the long term it will help drive automation which will lower the cost of cars and bring jobs to the countries with high levels of education and training.
Although it's in vogue to hate on Biden for being old, out of touch, not progressive enough etc., this speaks to the effectiveness of his core political strategy - reaching across the aisle and building consensus. The system might not usually reward such behaviour, but it often leads to solutions that last.
Also it's quite hilarious how quickly the reputation of the US has deterioated. The US is now being treated like an unreliable country.
"We don't want to be whipped around by a policy that we don't know how long it will last," said an executive at a Japanese automaker."