When I started my career in large industrial equipment, we used to rely on the Pennsylvania foundries for EVERYTHING. Our purchasing managers used to visit them often to negotiate future blanket orders, sometimes years in advance.

That all changed after Bill Clinton signed China onto the WTO agreement.

Suddenly we started getting customer demands that the castings and forgings were NOT of China or India origin. Customers already knew China products sucked and were unreliable. As the plants in Penn slowly closed, we were left struggling with Mexico and Brazil quality and looooong deliveries.