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They were lucky enough to have the resources to 're-invent' their manufacturing proccesses.
For most, this is out of reach.
This is where I feel our government should be focusing. Not in trying to build barriers to trade to allow uncompetative US companies to survive, but to revitilize manufacturing in the US much like Sharpied did. If Sharpie can build their product in the US at a better price, it means they can export those products as well.
The company that survives through protectionism alone has no foreign markets and doesn't help us with balanced trade.