This is something a small, but very loud and annoying, portion of the population doesn't understand. As a hobby I produce model trains here in the U.S., the shells are 3D printed, and the mechanisms come from a variety of overseas sources. There was a lively discussion about tariffs in the model railroader community earlier this year, and it struck me that the ordinary person had no idea what it costs to set up a manufacturing business, not just in the U.S., but anywhere (amusingly the ordinary ignorant person knows all about how to do it and what it costs!). There was a small but particularly vocal contingent yelling about how it's easy to set up precision manufacturing in the U.S., citing, as usual, their feelings. They kept going on and on about the Micro-Trains, a U.S. company that produces everything in the U.S. -except of course, their motors and gears which are made overseas. We've never had an American company produce an N-scale mechanism in the U.S., and when we still had American companies making HO scale ones, they were terrible. I say this as somebody who has lovingly repaired and modified old Varney and Mantua models, to get them to run better than they ever did when new... and I still know they're terrible. There's this expectation that everything can and will be made in the U.S., by magic, and won't cost us a cent! (Kind of like how a certain other country was going to pay for a certain wall and us taxpayers wouldn't pay anything for it!).
