According to a recent article in The Sourcing Journal, “It will take more than tariffs to bring back U.S. textile manufacturing, industry insiders say.”

The article continues, “On ‘Liberation Day’ in April 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed radically expansive double-digit duties on trade partners across the globe with the stated goal of rectifying ‘chronic trade deficits’ that ‘[threaten] our security and our very way of life’ and spurring a reshoring boom. A little over 12 months later, the administration’s IEEPA tariff program has been dismantled, but its impacts are still being strongly felt—just not in the way many American producers expected.”

In fact, rather than bringing back manufacturing, the actual impact has been a complex mix of diversified offshoring, nearshoring to the Western Hemisphere, and prioritization of automation over mass job creation—or what some call a “China Plus Many” strategy in an effort to mitigate risk. So, no. It did not work as anticipated. It doesn’t appear that there’s an appetite for building more factories here.