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Manufacturing lead times are huge. E.G. Offhand CPUs take something like 5-7 years from initial plans to final tapeouts / production.

That's not even considering the issues of planning, permits, installing machines, training workers, etc, in a more down to earth facility like a generic food plant, or heck forbid something seriously regulated (I hope) like making prescription drugs.




And...what exactly does this have to do with my comment, which was about how much money was being invested into manufacturing construction?


You'd mentioned a _timeline_ of manufacturing. I'm pointing out that usually investment has a lag time and giving some examples of lag times I've seen mentioned in publications before to parallel my supposition...

That real impact from investment may be 5-10+ years from the initial funding allocation.


But I wasn't talking about results, I just pointed out that investment was way up? There's no time lag there, it's just...how much money is going in.


That's a larger reason for offshoring than wages.

Your billion dollar factory can start returning the investment years earlier when you manufacture elsewhere.


Less red tape, easier to manage 'processes', fewer environmental / labor relations...

It's those last two, impact on the commons and unfair worker treatment, that are examples of where I _would_ support reasonable tariffs. Particularly if funds from those tariffs went to remediating the impact and were agreed to (also observed) by a majority of other leading countries / economic blocks.




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