This is why we need a really high protective import tariff. It needs to be across the board, uniform and not targeted against specific countries. This the only way to protect American workers and wages. Or the alternative is to become the third world.
Americans will not have your misguided so called protective tariffs.
Americans make stuff and go all over the world to sell their products. They have done so since the beginning of American time.
If tariffs on the scale you desire were wanted, we would have them. Americans don’t want them and we don’t have them.
The post mentions the textile industry. The American textile business was stolen from the UK. It came to Massachuttes where cheap power and labor proved so competitive the Brit industry withered. Then, as the Yankee textile workers demanded excessive wages, the business moved to the Carolinas where there was an abundant supply of willing workers.
Alas, that was not to last as post WW II economies took the textile manufacturing business because they were more competitive. Whole plants were disassembled and moved to Bangladesh and Peru. Ironically, Bangladeshi workers were put out of work by the movement from Columbia NC of a state of the art Japanese manufactured computer controlled plant that took in cotton bales at one end and spit out T shirt yarn at a mind boggling rate at the other end. There were SC companies established solely to broker the sales ow whole textile plants to foreign buyers.
The president is to be applauded for his nationalism. However, he will not bring jobs home. His efforts will create new jobs making new stuff. He will not bring home the textile jobs to the Carolinas. He will not bring home the jobs to the closed rayon plants, the polyester yarn plants.
We live in the world where we actively engage in competative trade. We like the competition and shun the tariffs that hamper out efforts to trade freely whereever we can sell the stuff we make.
Manufacturing in America is alive and well We are in fact selling our stuff in every nook and cranny our salesmen can travel
The anti trade isolationist mindset will never prevail in an America of traders.