• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Canada didn’t wholly abandon domestic industry like the US did. All these years later (and covid) the US is starting to realize just what they lost and how difficult it would be to get it back.

    They didn’t rip anyone off, the captains of industry chose cheaper places to innovate.

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      9 hours ago

      You’re conflating two separate things. US trade deals were very favorable for the US for a long time

      US industries off-shored much of the production, leading to a decline in US industry

      Both things are true and largely unrelated

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        9 hours ago

        Oh, my bad. I was really just talking about near and off shoring. I don’t honestly know much about trade deals.

        I know the US gets a lot of goods from Canada and Mexico and just assumed it was because it was closer than other trading partners.