[underbyte]

"As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer"

Brilliant! Prevent all technology transfers vital to US interests: Computer and chip manufacturing techniques, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology etc.

Have Intel, AMD etc. close all foreign plants and bring the factories back home.

5 year Phase In Once XZ country's imports exceed U.S. export's by 10% all the XZ country's products are stopped at the pier.

etc,etc.

Actually there are a hundred way to approach this, I would like to just see something done, some kind of action.

I get the Nobel right?

[fooman]

The literate says that quotas are worse than tariffs. You end up with "key money" (similiar to what happens in rent control) to buy the quotas (read political corruption)

[adam_az]

Have Intel, AMD etc. close all foreign plants and bring the factories back home.

Nice, and have foreign companies do the same in a trade war... and the some 6 million US workers who work for foreign companies will be thrown out of work.

[ninenot]

Sorry.

SAMNow (www.samnow.org) finance guru already came up with the concept.

We shaped it as "coupons." Country X gets a dollar coupon for every US manufactured good they import (dollar value.) THEY can ship goods here in the amount of coupons they have.

In addition, we will have a flexible tariff arrangement which accounts for cost-of-living/cost-of-doing-business--i.e., tax/reg/legal costs of US operations are hypothecated into tariffs on goods from China (e.g.)

Such a tariff would not affect Western European firms at all. Only 3-rd world sewers with no labor standards, no safety/enviro standards, etc.

[XBob]

17 - some good ideas, and I particularly like:

"Actually there are a hundred way to approach this, I would like to just see something done, some kind of action."