Look at the tag on your clothing items (your shirt, shoes, pants, dress, hat etc). Where were these items made? Any “Made in America” items? Look inside your pantry at the foods you eat regularly and list the countries where they were imported from. What car do you drive? Was it made in America? (Note that many foreign vehicles are manufactured in varying degrees in the U.S. while many automobiles produced by the “Big Three” U.S. auto corporations are manufactured outside the U.S. What makes an automobile an American car? List all of the friends and relatives you have who are working for an export industry, or for a foreign-owned firm, or all the foreign-owned firms in your city or town. Under what conditions do people advocate for TRADE RESTRICTIONS?
Answer)
Food
Milk USA
Bread USA
Fruits China
Dry Fruits and Nuts Mexico
Meat Canada
Clothes
Not a single piece of cloth is from the United States. The
following countries are in the labels for the clothes:
Vietnam
China
Mexico
India
Car
Hyundai Elantra : Made in China
People start supporting trade restrictions when it starts impacting
their jobs and livelihood. If someone is becoming a victim of
unemployment because most of the country's jobs are getting
outsourced then they start advocating for trade restrictions. The
reason behind this is that countries like US prefer getting its
goods and services from developing countries like China and India
because there the labor is cheap and this hinders the national
employment of US.
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