The Cost of Copying China too Late

So, you've hit upon something really critical here because what Trump likes to do is announce these big plans that some foreign investor is going to build a factory somewhere in America. Oh, we're going to have a plant. He likes to call them plants. We're going to have a plant in Texas, we're going to have a plant in Arizona. The problem with that, which is being quickly discovered, is that a factory doesn't exist by itself, it's part of an ecosystem of a supply chain. And if you don't have those domestic supplies to get the parts, to get the components, to get the the lasers or whatever you're building, then you're pretty much screwed. And then what Trump has done is of course, he's slapped all these tariffs on China, which is where a lot of the U.S. factories would get those components. So it's like, hey, you got to set up a plant in America. And if you do that, then you're like, how do we get our parts? Because you punished, you know, you you set these punitive tariffs and now we can't get the parts. We can't get the the high purity acids, for ...