Perhaps there is wisdom in being prepared for when your trade with foreign countries might be cut off. As we struggle through the coronavirus pandemic, it has become obvious there may be times when you need to do your manufacturing at home.
If your face masks are made in South Korea or China or Taiwan or wherever, and that nation decides it needs to put a hold on exporting them because it needs all of them for its own people, you are left holding the short stick.
So, designate companies and prepare them to be ready to step in to manufacture ventilators or whatever. Have them have the molds and manufacturing equipment ready at hand. When the time comes, the car lines are pulled back and the face mask lines are rolled out.
It might even be wise for each state to take this approach. With COVID-19, states have pointed to the federal government, complaining they are not being sent enough PPE (personal protective equipment) in the form of ventilators or whatever. If they took responsibility for making their own, they wouldn't need to worry about whether the federal government was going to shortchange them.
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