Whether you get screwed by an Asian, American, or European conglomerate, globalisation means survival of the biggest by feeding on the smallest, and living by the holy quarterly return. Local communities are for the long term and we should all support them. I think it is time to reinstate import taxes and tolls to level the playing field. I know economists will howl at this suggestion, but unless you have an incentive for home production, people will not produce. If you leave it up to the public they will buy the cheap import item, and dealers will go for cheap imports every time. There are things a government can do if it wants, but yours, like ours is living for the next election, full stop. Governing is unpopular because it doesn't suit everybody, so they just administrate. The US government at least admits as much and calls itself the Administration.
Pay more for home grown, and keep people in jobs. In Switzerland this works, everything is expensive, but folks earn a decent wage, so everybody's happy. And if they don't like the way things are run they run a referendum and vote on it. Easy.


Chris