You’re missing the point. The scenario that was presented describes an American company that is choosing to operate at “home” in the U.S. or export it’s operations to a foreign country. My point is that if you have a pure free market domestically, there is almost no scenario where it will be a net gain to move operations overseas…especially if the country you’re moving to is not a free market. The industry you’re in would have to be one of the few in which the resources are just not available in the U.S., or are just so much more readily available elsewhere that the distance and added taxes and regulations would still not be enough to decrease profit below the domestic level.
I never said goods would not be imported. Obviously, as I keep saying, there exists a limit to the amount of work that can be done at any given time, and desires are infinite…so yes, even at full domestic operating capacity there will be a market for imports…but this notion of a company seeing it more profitable to “ship jobs overseas” would largely be a myth.