It is business!
Popularity has nothing to do with it. It comes down to return on investment.
We have a high minimum wage and employees want medical insurance that increases the costs.
Sometimes even getting the right kind of wood is difficult because of import restrictions.
BB and Tony correctly point out some nuances and the basic reason:
It is too expensive to make the goods and ship to markets compared to where it is currently being done.
The ROI is not there so no private investor nor VC firm will be willing to throw away resources making a manufacture center for existing brands... and the risk to create a NEW BRAND, build its market and operate is even riskier.
If USA costs to produce were favorable, you would see TT stuff made in USA.
We can get to the complicated things as to WHY the USA has higher production and operating costs. BB correctly articulated a couple aspects, but it is even deeper and more expensive.
Facility: USA costs a LOT more than many places for facilities. Lease and operating costs are not small at all unless the possible market prices for the goods can make it work. There are the obvious fixed and variable costs of overhead and INSURANCE (not cheap)
Laws/Regs/Compliance: There are SO MANY local, state and federal regulation and compliance requirements that make it ridiculous expensive to comply with... other lands do not have it to this extent. Also, construction over-regulation and environment study and such make the cost to make facilities exponentionally higher than needed... plus with few new places made, the existing ones cost more to purchase and operate.
Labor: Leftist organizations have effectively pushed for and gotten higher labor wages in excess of what the market bears. There are additional costs of benefits to employees that you do not see as high costs in places where TT gear is made. These are HUGE costs. Then you have the insurance and payout for workman's comp... An employee can successfully win a case against you complaining that his neck and back hurt from poor workplace design (Enter Sigma 6 consultants) and walk off with big money. You do not have that elsewhere or to this extent.
Legal: In USA, a leftist disguised as someone caring for the environment (but the companies in China pollute the heck outta the environment and use slave labor without penalty)... in USA these leftists can bring a lawsuit to stop building of the facility for YEARS... when the expensive legal process plays out, they will climb up tree on the construction site and delay it years more... then win lawsuits claiming damage... No business will operate in these conditions... that is why businesses are laving California and New York in huge numbers... and when enough leftist move to those states, it will be V2.0 and those businesses move operations out of the country entirely.
Crime: Nearly all USA large cities been run by leftists for decades, very soft on crime, no not hold criminals accountable - it is racist or mean to do so... so criminals see it pays to be a criminal. Other leftists make riots in cities which destroy property (see all that looting and burning down of business on TV over the last few decades?) and the new construction and increased insurance costs make it damn impossible to re-build and operate without large loss. They would also need much higher expense on security... but if security stops thieves, they sue and win court cases claiming the criminal should not have been physically stopped.
This is why in big USA cities you do not see many supermarkets where riots and crime is very high... but the same leftists will gripe that greedy firms are to blame... I do not see Magic Johnson and Snoop Dog investing in city supermarkets, they are both way too wise on the investing of his capital to do that. This is the same concept and operating conditions for a new TT business in USA.
In NYC, car washes used to hire DOZENS of people to hand wash, dry off and finish a car wash. NYC leftists in power made a reg that a car wash needs to pay a huge minimum wage that was WAY HIGHER than what the market demanded, What happened, car washes closed down, or went fully automated... they had to make a capitol investment in machinery, but the ROI was there, since they only had to hire a couple mid managers to operate the show.
RESULT: 90% of car wash employees were out of a job... not what a leftist fights for, but it was expected. Now these displaced car wash employees must work ILLEGALLY out of a van on the street to work in their profession and risk huge fines and harassment for the city. NYC LOVES fining citizens for the max they can get. Ironically, these displaced employees are the very ones they say they serve... even more ironically, the groups of these employees have a long history of voting for and supporting the political left.
This is also pretty much why most of USA manufacturing have moved operations out of USA... leftists and their supporters have gotten majorities in legislature in many urban areas and states from decades ago, whose policies advocated the dynamics of these increased expenses I articulated.
