While we often hear that free trade means cheaper goods, is it really that simple? What is the true cost of that? How can we measure the long-term decline of America’s manufacturing and industrial base and its impact on America?

John Gardner is the author of “Manufacture Local: How to Make America the Manufacturing Superpower of the World.”

“America has a lot of questions to ask itself about the morality of what we’ve done to our own citizens, but also the morality of chasing sweatshop labor in other nations,” he says.

Why is having a robust industrial base so important? And if so, how do we turn things around? Are tariffs really the answer? Is an External Revenue Service a good idea?

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