If you look at the size of our exports relative to our imports, you’ll realize that imports dwarf exports and it would be net gain in jobs for us. We’ve already been in a trade war, we just haven’t been fighting. It’s time for us to retaliate.
Our tariffs are already lower than the restrictions many countries apply to our goods.
Tariffs raise domestic prices. Review the fight over the tariff in the first half of the 19th century it was omnipresent and brutal nearly bringing the Civil War on 30 yrs earlier. It clearly discriminated against agriculture.
The jobs that have been replaced by imports are primarily jobs with no future, the worst thing a protective tariff does.
Barriers to US goods must come down, I agree. That is why Trump is in the Orient.