Next to one's own home, the most costly material item that people need to purchase is their vehicle for transportation. That said, the lifespan of even the best of vehicles is limited, so that, unlike a home that through proper maintenance and whatnot, can easily stand for one hundred years the best of vehicles needs to be replaced, periodically. While it is true that at one time, all the vehicles being sold in America, were American in their origin and labor of, that hasn't be true for several decades, and won't ever be true again, in a world that has become appreciably smaller. The one thing that America did right in recent years, when it comes to the big expensive item that cars and SUVs represent, is that it forced the hand of many foreign manufacturers, to agree to a quid pro quo, so that these foreign manufacturers in order to have fair access to the American market would therefore in lieu of exorbitant tariffs or other restrictions, have decided to produce and to manufacture a certain percentage of their vehicles on American turf in order to maintain their access to this market. Those foreign manufacturers thereby invested millions upon millions of dollars into infrastructure, the purchasing of parts so needed for their manufacture of vehicles in America, as well as the hiring of American personnel, to accomplish such.
So then, to a certain significant degree, when Americans purchase cars that ostensibly appear to be foreign manufactured, those cars may well have been assembled primarily through American labor, utilizing American tools and American parts, which thereby helps to keep that money so being spent on such an expensive item as a vehicle, circulating within America, which is beneficial for America. Despite this success, though, America has in recent decades, continued to lose millions of manufacturing jobs to foreign based companies, as well as through the utilization of more automation and robotics. Still, in lieu of the fact that America was able to get foreign manufacturers of vehicles to open up expensive facilities to produce and to manufacture vehicles upon American soil, one would think that in order to protect, defend, and to promote other manufacturing jobs within America, that America would desire to do the same sort of thing, for other industries, besides just the automotive one.
In point of fact, about the only thing that wakes up foreign companies that are selling a lot of their product into the United States, of which none of the product is being manufactured within the United States, is the implementation of necessary tariffs, so as to help protect domestic manufactures and to encourage those foreign operatives to invest in America, so that they can continue to have fair access to that market share. After all, the domestic cost of labor, the domestic cost of land, the domestic cost of environmental laws, and the cost of litigation in America, is going to, more times than not, be significantly more expensive then the corresponding cost of such in a given foreign nation, of which, a tariff so implemented is a fair way to help even the score between two competing nations.
The bottom line is that the type of deal that was structured to help secure the continual domestic manufacturing of automobiles in America --necessitated that foreign manufacturers would have to compete on the same soil, as our domestic manufacturers so do. This is fair, and should be implemented far more often for other industries that are currently being hollowed out by foreign manufacturers that do not employ Americans.