Trump says he will reimpose steel and aluminum tariffs on Brazil and Argentina, opening new trade war

Washington Post ^ | 12/02/2019 | By Rachel Siegel and Terrence McCoy

[qaz123]

I would say that, maybe, the President is thinking..you lay down with dogs, you’re gonna get fleas.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-25/bolsonaro-to-meet-china-s-xi-in-bid-to-balance-ties-with-u-s

Nowhere on the planet do the Chinese let anyone get the better of them, until now and President Trump. Bolsonaro is playing with fire. Shame the President is the only one, of the two of them that sees it. Bolsonaro should be looking at what China is doing to Venezuela.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/venezuela-china-and-russia-owed-debts-as-presidential-fight-rages.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/china-comes-to-the-rescue-of-venezuela-s-run-down-oil-refineries ..... yet another Chinese debt trap.

[MortMan]

If the goal is to have protectionist barriers taken down by trading “partners” who do not trade fairly, then across-the-board tariffs would be counter productive.

[montag813]

I've been on FR since 1998. Back then the Free Traitors ruled the GOP, and we all went along unquestionably. We believed all the crap about free markets, and the nonsense about tariffs causing the Great Depression, constantly spouted by "think tanks" that decried any and all tariffs, despite our skyrocketing deficits and job losses.

Now most of us are (correctly) yelling support for Trump's tariffs. How times have changed.

[DannyTN]

There are other goals:

• Restore the protectionist environment and give American companies an advantage in our own consumer market through tariffs that worked well for this country for it's first 180 years.
• Rebuild core industries that we have lost after lowering the tarriffs in the 1960s.
• Eliminate the trade deficit.
• Provide tarriff revenue to reduce the national debt and/or lower individual and corporate income taxes.

I'm also okay with targeted tariffs, in specific cases.