I don't have a position on whether it's a good thing or not, but it seems like the anecdote about importing a part might be the desired path for the government:

I don't have a position on whether it's a good thing or not, but it seems like the anecdote about importing a part might be the desired path for the government: Make it a huge pain to import parts so that people prefer sourcing them domestically. Also, I've never seen a comment fall off the rails halfway through as hard as this one did.