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Mac, we import 3x the amount of steel that we export. Imports actually spiked in the recession for some reason. We have the ability to make 100% of all the steel here.
http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2011/10/steel_exports_booming_at_port.html

Batteries are a big business in Canada for assembly and finishing happens in China for the most part. I think Japan makes their own. There are existing plants for Duracell and a few others here. Too lazy to look up but Sleepy Hollow or whatever needed a big cleanup at an abandoned plant.

I just go by what I see. Turn over a plastic item and look where it was made. I have a several hundred buck telescoping ladder I work with. Nice aluminum ladder "Made in China" 3 companies make telescoping ladders. Not a one of them is made in this country.

I could be wrong. I hear complaints all the time that building a new factory in the U.S. is nearly impossible.



Actually it's evidently quite easy to build a factory in the USA, if you want to manufacture expensive solar panels to compete in a market that is saturated with domestic over production that has to then compete with cheaper Chinese products. If you know the right people DOE will throw cash at you.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken