[central_va]

Then he is going to use his dictatorial powers to make American companies

A 20% tariff is a 20% guaranteed profit margin for any company willing to repatriate production. Greed will bring back manufacturing to the USA, just like greed made corporations seek the cheapest stoop labor from all over the world. Greed cuts both ways. Anyone making product would kill for a 20% profit margin.

[tacticalogic]

A 20% tariff is a 20% guaranteed profit margin for any company willing to repatriate production.

Only if they can make it for the same cost here.

[DoodleDawg]

A 20% tariff is a 20% guaranteed profit margin for any company willing to repatriate production. Greed will bring back manufacturing to the USA, just like greed made corporations seek the cheapest stoop labor from all over the world. Greed cuts both ways. Anyone making product would kill for a 20% profit margin.

Or they can continue making the goods overseas at cheap costs and pass the tariff on to the consumers.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

A 20% tariff is a 20% guaranteed profit margin for any company willing to repatriate production. Greed will bring back manufacturing to the USA, just like greed made corporations seek the cheapest stoop labor from all over the world. Greed cuts both ways. Anyone making product would kill for a 20% profit margin.

No, a 20% tariff will raise costs for some of our manufacturers by 20% because they deal internationally and the foreign businesses that sell to them will have to raise prices, giving them even more incentive to offshore to avoid that 20% going to the government.

[Ajnin]

Are you of the opinion that every country we slap a tariff on is going to happily go along with taxing their goods without a similar tariff?