"They tried Made in the USA. It was too expensive for their customers"

The Title is from an article in in Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/business/they-tried-made-usa-it-was-too-expensive-their-customers-2025-07-02/]

Of course it was too expensive.

American companies fired their hard-working, competent employees and shipped the work (and equipment) to China a long time ago.

Now that few ordinary products are made in the USA, there is no competition, no local sources, lots of startup and training expenses, costs of purchasing the equipment no longer existing (and now manufactured in China so subject to tariffs) and more.

Since TACO changes from Tuesday to Tuesday, there is no guarantee that the purchaser of those goods will stick around any longer than it takes TACO to change his mind or to find another cheap-product manufacturer in another country.

The sleazy companies that are whining about not finding American sources for parts were the ones that, immediately on startup, went to Chinese manufacturers, instead of looking for American partners and are now only looking for sources (not long-term partners) ONLY because today TACO is imposing tariffs.

Those same sleazy companies chose to go to Chinese companies because they didn't want to hire employees (aka peons) to do work so they outsource everything from HR to janitorial work to run "mean and lean", a euphemism for having only executives and managers so no peons have to be paid and the company can be run out of a New York or Los Angeles office instead of a plant in Poorsville, USA where it would provide jobs to the people expected to buy the products.