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I'll avoid the technical economics speak -- You can buy "made in America" products any time that you want. To force the rest of us to do so does a few things....

1) It limits our choices
2) By definition you are increasing our costs, which mean as a business I'll need to pass these increased costs downstream, and if I'm a consumer will mean that I have less money available to buy other things, or to pay-off debt, or in the worst case will force me to assume more debt in order to buy the things that I need.
3) Any tariffs collected will mean more money for the government to waste.
4) It will pi$$ me off

But as I said, you're welcome to make your purchase decisions based on any criteria that you'd like. Just don't inflict them on me.
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