[DannyTN]

When you put up barriers to competition you get an inferior product at a higher cost .... And in this case more money to the government!

I doubt most people would say cheap imports have led to superior products. But they are really cheap.

Raising imports doesn't create a barrier to competition except for competition from cheap third world labor. The American market is big enough to generate plenty of competition to drive product innovation and lower prices.

And those import tariffs worked well for this country for it's first 180 years. You didn't see a lack of competition then did you?

[TexasGator]

"Raising imports (tariffs?) doesn't create a barrier to competition except for competition from cheap third world labor. "

Yea. Tariffs kept Harley Davidson alive. And they still make a low quality product based on an almost century old design.