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The jobs that have been replaced by imports are primarily jobs with no future, the worst thing a protective tariff does.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.
Tariffs server our country well for the first 180 years. And since we’ve lowered them we’ve seen industry after industry disappear.
It’s not simply low value jobs that went overseas. It’s High tech jobs. And design jobs and marketing jobs follwed. And with it goes the innovation. If we want to lead in Robotics, we have to have the processes to automate.
We don’t need barriers to US goods to come down. We need barriers to the US market to go up.
Our founding fathers viewed the Tariffs as a tax on foreigners wanting to sell into our markets.