just saw this Made in USA "skate shoe"
https://deviumusa.com/products/truckee-mid-devium-x-comunitymade-shoe$350 USD/$480 CAD price tag
This is pretty expensive, I think this is more meant to capture Hype Beast consumers and not meant for practical use. They have some Youtube video talking about how if you send the shoe in they will replace parts of it... that does not sound like a sustainable business model to me at all on a large scale. But would be happy to be wrong about that. I personally like the look of the shoe quite a bit!
I see that New Balance, Terra, Kodiak make footwear made in North America in the $200 - $300 price range. I imagine skateboarding is not popular enough to make anything outside of asia to justify cost increase to the manufacturer?
Don't want to go on too much of a political tangent here but I feel like this is the price we have to pay to buy our manufacturing industry back.