I suppose an ‘over willingness to please’ on the part of our ‘government’, greed, or just plain corruption causes U.S. Citizens to have be put in peril of chemical laced and parasite ridden Brazilian OJ, chemicals of all nature in food products from China - even deadly dog and cat foods... How is it in any way good for this country to have such lax import standards? Someone is benefiting but it is not the average citizen.
Think "reserve currency." Subsidized trade is a license to print more money.