Here's an example of what your 1-2% tarif can do.
lets say I have an operation that takes a raw material which isn't available in the USA, I refine it and send it over to anther operation I have in the USA, where is is used in the final making of a finnished value added product. I then sell that product not only in the USA, but back to the country where I got the raw material from.
You want to put a tarif on that product? Then I will have to close the USA plant and make the whole product out of country. That's the impact even as much as a 1-2 % tax can have. No way am I going to give up 1-2 million is real money just because of protectionist policy, to protect what? From what? myself?
Once again. I'm not talking about protectionism. A protective tariff and a revenue tariff are two separate things. And yes, if your product was one that we chose to raise revenue from, then a tariff would be placed on it. But I'm also for lowering income and/or corporate taxes at the same time we place tariffs. You may have extra profit as a result of the corporate or income lowering and keep your plant open here.