I guess we should put a tariff on all imports???
We should stop engaging in the mental masturbation that we can hold our businesses to the rules of “free trade” agreements while allowing other countries to walk all over us, whether by direct violation of the agreement or by monetary policy that is gamed to support their exports to the US. eg, Japan has deliberately targeted the value of the yen three times recently to insure that their exports remain cheap in the US. China pegs their currency to the USD to insure that they’re always able to under-price US producers of any product the Chinese wish to export to the US.
If we want reality to reign supreme in trade, then we should ditch these idiotic multi-lateral trade “agreements” that are passed by legislation and executive fiat (when in fact, they should be subject to the same level of Congressional approval as a treaty, because these trade agreements are being used to trump domestic law and policy) and start enacting bi-lateral trade agreements with every country with whom we wish to trade. This way, if they choose to not abide by the terms of the agreement, then we can either dissolve the agreement or write in clauses for orderly reflexive counter-action to their violations instead of taking these issues up with the WTO or some other extra-national body.