Dallas noted that the government had regarded the establishment of domestic manufactures as important ever since Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures in 1790, but policy measures to achieve that objective had never really been undertaken. The country was almost wholly cut off from foreign supplies of weapons and munitions of war, clothing, and other goods during the war, and Dallas pointed out that “from these circumstances of suffering and mortification have sprung . . . the means of future safety and independence” with the emergence of domestic producers of such goods. With the resumption of
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We are likely going to see a lot more emphasis of this national security as a reason for protectionism with covid
