So jack up the tariffs on imports to the levels that the Americans will apply to Bombardier and they can replace the trivial amount that governments recover from taxes on resource exports after costs.  It gives companies incentive to tool up to make stuff here and quit wasting capital on unstable export markets for resources. Jeez, you'd think that since most people live worse now than they did in the seventies we'd give up on the trade idea. At least we are back to almost 1970's living standards, but it will be a long time making up the 1980's and 1990's income losses and probably won't ever happen if we continue down the trade route.  Competitive advantage doesn't work in real life - just in theory and it should be dumped in the economic dustbin with Communism.