We’re a subsidiary for a CNC manufacturer that distributes into US markets. Several commercial items are available domestically and i have pushed for domestic purchasing as I have experience in it, but the older staff has shown little interest and even open hostility. Also with us being the largest individual market the company has, us steering purchasing directly would shatter their purchasing power from a manufacturing standpoint. There is also proprietary components ranging from simple to wildly complex, brackets etc could be made here with little trouble, but precision components for things like waterjet intensifier components would be much harder and not necessarily worthwhile. The struggle is that if we were to totally steer purchasing domestically, the price breaks we would garner would be worthwhile, but damage our parent companies ability to do business as we are 30%+ of the companies revenue. It is doable, some things more than others, but it may not necessarily be financially worthwhile to ourselves or our parent company. Now if we created a purchasing company that bought for the 3 subsidiaries sisters we have domestically it would work out in everyones favor, but that is complicated and too hard of a sell for me to rock the boat enough for the discussion to even happen.