[93po]

It was never going to last if the US allowed for very low cost imports from those countries. This is literally one of the largest points of tariffs - protecting domestic manufacturing. We could have had high tariffs the whole time and offshoring would have been much less pronounced. I'm not saying that would have been a net positive, but to say it would never last is only true under certain circumstances.

[whereismyacc]

You were still going to lose export markets as international competition grew, and you were still going to shift to higher value-added service jobs as the economy developed.