[HillaryBriss]

> ... they were commonly pulling plans on paper out of drawers in storage rooms to match exactly the specs for some ancient pump in Pocatella or Poughkeepsie.

That is awesome. Thank you for the info.

When a company like Crane Pumps goes out of business because cheaper imports take over its market, all that information (the paper plans from past pump designs) probably gets lost forever. Once the company folds, these small cities all over the country cannot replace their old pumps and instead have to upgrade the system to make it compatible with a new pump model.

I wonder if global trade economists account for that additional cost to the customers when the old domestic supplier goes away.