you don’t seem to get it.
The President, controls the International Trade Commission, and appoints the Commissioners who rule on Section 751 Complaints (dumping by foreign countries).
Basically Trump announces that everyone who has been economically injured by imports from Mexico since day -1 of NAFTA, or whatever, should get down to the ITC to plead their case.
Then Trump’s ITC commissioners uphold every single complaint and start imposing gigantic tariffs on everything coming in from Mexico, including pickup trucks, cookies and HVAC equipment.
There is also Section 201-203 in the Trade Act with more grounds for the ITC to rule in favor of US interests injured by imports and impose trade penalties on the offending country.
like i say, the President has great authority in this area. All that is required is leadership.
So if it's U.S. companies manufacturing the pickup trucks, cookies, and HVAC equipment and bringing it back to the U.S. then how can they complain they are economically injured by those imports?
Let me understand your position.
The International Trade commission is an eight decade old bi-partisan commission established by Congress. Congress being a presumably unnecessary inconvenience foisted on us by the founders.
Upon election I presume by fiat Donald will terminate the democrat members, of the six no more that three can be of the same party, and replace them with members of the Trump party. He may have to do the same with the Republican members, he can replace them with Donald party members.
Then once he's stacked the commission, he'll ignore the will of Congress and the courts, he'll instruct them to uphold any and all charges of dumping, irrespective of facts or the rule of law. That and an unlawful Persidential tariff will convince companies to invest in the "economically stable" United States.
I've commented in the past that one of the worst potential results of illegal immigration is the importation of the corrupt system of government south of the border. And have suggested we'd be better off importing tomatos if the absence of labor fear mongers are correct, rather than importing illegal workers. If you're correct, that becomes less of a worry, we'll be electing a corrupt Mexican/Latin/South American centrally directed economy.
For many voters who are skeptical of Trump and what he says, his supporters may turn out to be his worst enemy