For starters, by either not allowing products made by Chinese slave labor or Latin American child labor into the country AT ALL, or, alternatively, by an equalization tarriff which cancels out the advantage of using labor practices that are illegal in America. Currently, slaves, children, and people paid bare subsistence produce products abroad which are allowed to be shipped by merchants directly into the USA to compete directly with products made by workers who are protected by laws against slavery and child labor.
Obviously the Americans cannot compete with practices like that, any more than a northern free labor cotton farmer was going to ever be able to compete with plantation slave-farmed cotton.
The answer is not to shrug our shoulders and say "Well, that's globalization". The answer iis to impose tarriffs that cancel out the advantages of child labor and slavery, so that the economic advantages to producers for using those methods is not allowed to create an undercutting market price in the USA.
These are not the same things as punitive tarriffs. The purpose is not to keep out foreign goods and protect domestic manufacturers. Rather, the purpose is to equalize the playing field so that countries with disgraceful human rights practices in their labor markets do not derive a competitive ADVANTAGE from those practices when they sell their goods in the US market.
As a practical matter, it means spending $5 for a pair of socks instead of $2.
But when you impose tarriffs, the price of everything goes up, and pretty soon the poor people that you were trying to protect can't afford to buy anything. And "poor" is a pretty subjective word when 98% of the homes in this country have a television. We really have no poor in this country, we just have a political party that loves class warfare. That guy has more than you, so he must be evil.
More people benefit from $2 socks than benefit from $5 socks.
There's an inherent tariff on foreign goods merely in the extra cost of shipping. If Americans cannot produce as good or better quality sock for the same price, then they should get out of the sock business and find something they can do competitively. If so-called "slave" labor can produce a higher quality product that our domestic skilled labor can... I guess it's not much of a skill then, is it?
Right. It means taking thousands of dollars out of people's pockets when purchasing items and moving those dollars to the Federal gov't. You think you'll get that money back from the government ?
Good move there, sport.
"a northern free labor cotton farmer"
Now, that is a REAL oxymoron !