[In_Iowa_not_from]

But my idea of free trade involves the other side dropping their tariffs and import restrictions.

Turns out it was all bait and switch campaign rhetoric. Great Britain had a trade surplus with us and he still slapped a tariff on them for the "priviledge" of selling things to us.

What was supposed to be a means of protecting American workers from cheap Chinese labor has morphed into a tool to humiliate former allies and harden the resolve of our enemies.

It will be all fun and games until the dollar stops being used for international transactions by Trump's growing list of foreign enemies.

[mikelets456]

That’s the way I see it. Manufacturers are getting killed with all this uncertainty. I was against these from the beginning…..it has gotten so out of hand and it’s not helping manufacturers it’s actually (now) destroying them in the USA.

[lastchance]

I honestly believe Trump is misusing tariffs.