It doesn’t discourage anything, it just makes Americans pay more for things. All things. And who skims the cream? Uncle Obama.
As I said, we need to keep the Chinese goods out of our markets at least until they stop aiming nuclear missiles at the West Coast. They’re dumping the stuff in violation of a treaty. They’re a hostile country. We need to do whatever we can to damage them.
The reason Americans buy Chinese trash is that it’s dirt cheap. (You can do that when you use slaves.) If the price is significantly increased to the point that i’s well above American and other countries’ competitive stuff, then consumers will buy that stuff instead.