Not very likely.
He mistakenly believes a 30% tariff will "protect American workers."
Well, if he really wants to protect American workers, why not 60%, or 100% or even 200%?
Raising a tariff against "unfair" imported goods doesn't create any more jobs than raising the minimum wage would, simply because higher prices--whether imposed on imports or as a result of restarting inefficient domestic production of a product--divert capital from investment into consumption.
It's a temporary fix (the seen) that deprives the nation of new industries and production (the unseen).
Bastiat had a catchy phrase to counter those of his countrymen who advocated protective tariffs:
If goods don't cross borders, armies will.
Put another way, protectionism is an attempt by governments to inflict on their own citizens in peacetime the same kinds of harm their enemies attempt to do (with naval blockades) during wars.
“He mistakenly believes a 30% tariff will “protect American workers.”
Someone forgot to tell Reagan that. Harley is still here because of a protective tariff at a rough time. Reagan also instituted a large tariff when Japan started dumping electronics here.
And somebody forgot to tell our founders who funded the government with tariffs our first 100 years until the progressives took root.
Modern “free traders” are not the conservatives they claim to be. Their loyalty is to the business world globally, not to a nation state called America.
To them America is only a means to an end.
Screw you anti American globalists...
That's the same horseshit that was sold to us as to why we had to have free trade with China.
And what happened, instead of the Chinese becoming a more free and open society we became a more controlled, secretive and corrupt one.
The Chinese aren't our friends and never will be. They disdain American weakness and will use it to our detriment.