And...what exactly does this have to do with my comment, which was about how much money was being invested into manufacturing construction?

You'd mentioned a _timeline_ of manufacturing. I'm pointing out that usually investment has a lag time and giving some examples of lag times I've seen mentioned in publications before to parallel my supposition...

That real impact from investment may be 5-10+ years from the initial funding allocation.

But I wasn't talking about results, I just pointed out that investment was way up? There's no time lag there, it's just...how much money is going in.

That's a larger reason for offshoring than wages.

Your billion dollar factory can start returning the investment years earlier when you manufacture elsewhere.

Less red tape, easier to manage 'processes', fewer environmental / labor relations...

It's those last two, impact on the commons and unfair worker treatment, that are examples of where I _would_ support reasonable tariffs. Particularly if funds from those tariffs went to remediating the impact and were agreed to (also observed) by a majority of other leading countries / economic blocks.