It’s not like I am morally opposed to tariffs. I’ve just seen way to much evidence that tariffs don’t work, and backfire. I felt that way when Obama did them, and I still do. Apparently, enough of the country like it when Obama did it, so we are going to get more. That’s just the way it is.
Once we get our steel industry up and rolling again, I think domestic competition will keep prices competitive.
Who knows, as what happened with automobiles, maybe we can get foreign steel producers to build plants in the U.S.
I think selective tariffs in key industries are useful for keeping industrial production within the U.S. But I am opposed to wide scale tariffs of consumer goods and clothes for example.
Just getting the trade balance on an even keel makes sense to me.