Nothing to do with China? China manufactures the world’s goods. Just because they are making iPhones and tablets instead of cd’s, doesn’t mean manufacturing jobs disappeared. It just means the jobs went out of the U.S. and evolved to different products. Those walmarts and targets and Home Depot and lowes and costcos and Sams are everywhere and they are filled with manufactured goods made in China.
Even if those items are eventually printed with a 3D printer they have to have the raw material to print with and a whole lot of it.
Even if clothes are printed which is a great idea then they have to have raw material because you can’t wear 1’s and 0’s.
We’re talking about sold items no longer being manufactured. Doesn’t matter where things are manufactured when they AREN’T manufactured. China didn’t have anything to do with the death of music stores, or software stores. The fact that those industries basically stopped selling physical good killed the stores.
Raw material will be slugs of some sort. Maybe even recycled, put your crap in one side get new stuff out the other.