The other big risk is that in 4 years, the tariffs could be removed with a change of government, or earlier when the GOP realises how bad their mistake is.

So these businesses have to decide do they want to invest billions in plants that could be redundant before they're even completed.

I think making products in America is a wonderful idea. As you said, won’t stop the tariff price increases, but there’s merit in investing in manufacturing in countries more capable of increased automation like the United States, Japan, and Western Europe thanks to skilled engineering workforces. This is especially true because if you intend to do manufacturing ethically you’re better off competing somewhere where the minimums in worker treatment and environmental protection are higher.

Now if you need manual labor as cheap as possible, go to South Asia and South America, we can’t compete with them on that unless we’re imposing ludicrous tariffs.

Toyota is kind of a counter example here. I'm grateful to them for opening several factories in my home state.

It's funny to me that you can buy a (partially) American made and assembled Toyota. Or be a real patriot and buy a Chinese made and Mexican assembled F-150.

No, it's not wages that would increase prices huge amounts. They'd increase the price of goods slightly (depending on the good) but for the most part the biggest cost factor that increases when you decide to make something in the US is regulations.

Ya know, rules that prevent companies from dumping their toxic waste wherever TF they want. It's not just the regulations that apply to a specific company's business but all the regulations in their supply chain.

Consider a PCB manufacturer: They need epoxies, fiberglass, copper, gold, tin, and silver to make PCBs along with a shitton of associated chemicals. All of those things ultimately come from heavily regulated industries (because we don't want smelter waste full of things like lead, mercury, cobalt, and worse things winding up in our food and water). All that regulation costs money to deal with. Not just in actually complying with the regulations but also hiring people knowledgeable enough to make sure they're complying (and doing so in the least expensive way possible).

In countries like China regulations are basically non-existent because even if they have them officials can easily and cheaply be bribed to get around them (e.g. poisoned baby formula). Furthermore, the people are vastly more ignorant of health and pollution than your average idiot in the US. If some dude sees a company dumping tires on the side of the road they're likely to call the cops because that's obviously illegal. I'm China that doesn't happen because the people will be unlikely to understand the (environmental/downstream) consequences of that or will suspect the cops (and local officials) are in on it and reporting the illegal dumping could get them disappeared.

The most toxic industries are all overseas and we really do rely on them to keep supply chains going. Bringing them back onshore would drastically increase the cost of a shitton of goods just because there's no cheap way to dispose of byproducts here and there's way more requirements around handling such things.

Repealing tarrifs doesnt work like that. The countries we tarrif will do the same right back, and wont be eager to repeal them.

Goods will be more expensive forever

Honda: Hold my sake

I get it for semiconductors, though. Unless there's some loophole for the parts inside of devices, we're kinda boned.