[notlefthanded]

That didn't work too well with blackberry in Argentina. It's kind of an extreme case, but there are parallels that can be drawn.

[bduerst]

Here's a good podcast on how terrible it was:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/episo...

Even with the tariff incentives, the demand within the country wasn't enough to cover the economies of scale to keep manufacturing costs effective.