Once a new car reaches the customer all that shipping, marketing, retailing added NOTHING to the value of the car. Who sat in their new car and thought about the cool train it shipped on or the car dealers furniture? Nobody. Those services didn’t create anything.
It sounds like you have no idea what it means for a product or commodity to be more valuable in one location than another. Take a Honda that is rolled off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio. If those cars could only be sold to people who walked to the plant, the company wouldn't even be able to sell enough cars to justify building the plant in the first place.
I don't care what the customer "thinks" the value of the shipping process may be. The reality is that when they sit in a new car, they are sitting in something that they never would have been able to own without the shipping process that brought it to the dealership where they bought it.
And yet that person sits in a new car, possibly even delivered to their own driveway. I wouldn’t expect them to spend much time wondering how it got there, or where all the parts and materials to build it came from, either. But I do know that the less they think about it, the more likely they are a protectionist.