How do you propose placing a tariff on intellectual property?
The stealing of intelectual property is going on all the time.
What I was most against all this time was the moving of the means of production abroad, the entire placement of a company's machines and methods brought to an overseas company who never HAD to have any intellectual property to start their business, all they needed was machines with the programming.
To try and restart production in the U.S. on the level of the 1970's to 1980's would require the purchasing of all the material and achines that China bought in the last 20 years.
Who has THAT kind of money?
Who can afford to start up a company, knowing this, when all they need to do is send a drawing file to a Chinese machine shop....who will make it for 1/10 the cost over here, and ship it back cheaper than we can make it, and make a killing on selling that product over here as a commodity.
The last company I did drawings for, sent their drawings to China, who sent back the parts to here, where this company hired all temps to assemble the parts at less than $10 an hour, to then send the parts back to China for final assembly into refrigerators for resale in the U.S.!!
going across the ocean FOUR times to be resold here was still cheaper than being made here!