Pass a law that establishes the tariff on each nation's goods at the highest tariff that nation charges on any of our goods they import.
Don't want high tariffs on your exports, simple solution, reduce your tariffs on our exports.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Tom Clancy suggested something like that in his novel Debt of Honor.
He called it the "Trade Reciprocity Act", and it mirrored the laws of the nations that put unrealistic restrictions on our products.
It was the same book that had the aircraft hit the Capitol Building during a joint session of Congress...the one that the 9/11 criminals got their idea from.
i do agree that the playing field should be leveled so that the US is not always having to go uphill.