The question you have to ask yourself is does the government have a greater obligation to interfere in commerce to benefit the consumer or manufacturer. As long as Joe Sixpack price shops at Walmart American companies have to outsource to survive.
“As long as Joe Sixpack price shops at Walmart American companies have to outsource to survive.”
Not if Joe Sixpack would refuse to buy any Chinese-manufactured products from wherever he happens to shop.
What if we outsourced all of our manufacturing to Japan in the 1930s?