This feels like a necessary evil when it is often cheaper to buy an entire Chinese product directly with free shipping than to pay for just the domestic shippin

This feels like a necessary evil when it is often cheaper to buy an entire Chinese product directly with free shipping than to pay for just the domestic shipping of anything at all. This is a market distortion which has a huge cost to the environment among other things. On the other hand China is the manufacturing giant of the world, and being able to source components directly in small quantities at a reasonable price is probably very useful to small businesses, so I hope that can continue somehow.