Section. 8.The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Duties and imposts are "taxes" imposed on imported goods from foreign countries.
My position is that the Founders were intelligent people, and if there were no place whatsoever for duties and imposts that they would have not included them in the powers of Congress.
I favor duties and imposts on goods imported from foreign countries who have distorted the free market. If they use slave or slave equivalent labor, then they have distorted the market. If they use regulation or fees against our imports or refuse our imports, then they have distorted a free market. If they have the government subsidize the production of any good, then they have distorted the market.
To compensate for the distortion of a free market, I endorse duties and imposts.
In short, I agree with the U.S. Constitution. There is a time and place for these things.
Obama Slaps tariffs on Chinese tires
2009
President Barack Obama on Friday slapped punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires entering the United States from China
2009 President Barack Obama signed off on higher tire tariffs. http://www.google.com/search?q=Obama+tire+tariffs&hl=en&tbo=1&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=off&tbs=
Goodyear’s Union City, Tenn., plant to close, eliminating 1,900 jobs
Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | February 10, 2011 at 10:45 p.m. | By Tom Bailey Jr.
I guess it’s a surprise that it happened as soon as it happened, but we all had known because of its unprotected status that something like this could happen,” Mayor Terry Hailey said.
He referred to the last contract agreement between Goodyear and the United Steelworkers, which didn’t protect the plant from shutting down.
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