Comments on: China Manufacturing Data but 45% Made in America https://6sigma.com/manufactured-in-china-made-in-america/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Julien Couvreur https://6sigma.com/manufactured-in-china-made-in-america/#comment-25551 Mon, 16 May 2011 21:43:05 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=8657#comment-25551 Protectionist policies are short-sighted and favor some (US screws manufacturers) at the expense of others (people buying screws to build their product). On net, they do not help the country from an economic standpoint. Spending effort to build (virtual and legislative) walls between countries is counter-productive.

That said, in the case of the military, there is a strategic angle when it comes to not being dependent on some (potentially) enemy country. I could understand that argument when it comes to rare earth magnets, but certainly not screws.
It’s hard to put a price on this “independence premium”, especially since the military is tax-funded and monopolistic (i.e. it functions partially outside of the market price system).

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