No, I said "More than offset". What you are willfully ignoring, is that instead of the Communist Chinese government getting the proceeds, it's an American worker. That's a big big, huge difference.
Now the government pays out unemployment, food stamps, medicaid and disability so that you can get the absolute cheapest price from the communists. The government is subsidizing your cheapest price now.
It would be better if instead of government paying out for the unemployed, that we actually put them to work and let them pay taxes. And if that means you have to buy from an American manufacturer instead of the communists, so be it.
Because here is a clue. The communist government isn't playing by our rules.
The communist government isn't going to take the proceeds and buy american goods even if their people want them. They are going to buy American businesses and dismantle them and ship them to China and put more of their own people to work. And they are buying American debt to enslave us. And they are locking up raw materials so that they will be the only game in town.
Wise up! Go back and read that introductory level macro-economics book. And pay attention this time to the exception to the free trade argument when the trading partners are unequal.
You are making the argument for jobs in general, not manufacturing jobs in particular. Why do the new jobs need to be in manufacturing?
Define "unequal".