So quit fishing, then you will not be supporting the importation of foreign made goods. However once that happens, all the people that make a living at BPS, Cabelas, Walmart, Dicks SportingGoods  and every other chain or mom and pop tackle store will be unemployed. Then we can all complain about the high unemplyoment rate. It is that simple.

Just my opinion.

All I know is the tackle I can buy for$30 today is much,much better and much cheaper than 40 years ago. Todays $30 reel compared to a  Mitchell 300 40 years ago is astounding. Comparing todays dollar to years ago, todays rods and reels are dirt cheap.

I look for "Made in USA", especially on tools. Won't buy tools made in China. I will pay more to get something made in this country because I think it is made better and will last longer. When I have to, I will buy something made in China but I gripe and belly ache about it when I do. I don't mind buying stuff made in Japan because it is usually good quality.

thats what started this whole thing i pay more for the american made rods so i jut wanted to have american made hats and shirts

I only buy Ford Trucks and will not buy a foreign vehicle.  I liked my first Ranger, Second Ranger, First Explorer, Second Explorer and my F150.  My truck was built in a plant in Virginia Beach that is scheduled to be closed.  That is about as far as I take my made in America purchasing.  

Simple economics dictates that foreign products that are cheeper and have good quality will be purchased by more people than higher priced American goods of equal quality.  This is not about people, countires, or companies it is about supply and demand.  Americans have the ability to move on from a manufacturing job to something else because most of us can learn new skills and find bigger and better jobs.  The cheeper goods with good quality allow poorer people to buy many more products than before.

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Simple economics dictates that foreign products that are cheeper and have good quality will be purchased by more people than higher priced American goods of equal quality.  This is not about people, countires, or companies it is about supply and demand.  Americans have the ability to move on from a manufacturing job to something else because most of us can learn new skills and find bigger and better jobs.  The cheeper goods with good quality allow poorer people to buy many more products than before.

Cart leading the horse.  I would suggest that goods need to be made cheaper for sale in the US because it's harder to find a decent paying job anymore since we've shipped too much of our manufacturing overseas.  Those jobs have been replaced with service end jobs which pay far less.  

As for cheaper manufacturing overseas?  Besides paying vastly less for labor you also have to take into account the lack of enviromental and regulatory costs that no longer have to be factored in.  You can work people harder and longer outside the US without it costing you more.  Same can be said with pollution and land use regulations which are virtually non-existant in many of these foreign countries like China or Mexico.

All of the reasons that you mentioned regarding why things cost less from foreign countries (cheep labor, lax environmental regulations, etc.) confirm the laws of supply and demand.  We as Americans live in the one country of unlimited opportunity.  In this country, you are the only one that limits your ultimate success.  If you work hard and overcome obsticles you can be successful and make a good living.