“What about the over $2T in US goods and services exports your tariffs will kill?”
God forbid we destroy our scrap cardboard export industry!
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704360404576206250585521170
“Scrap paper exporters say they create jobs, help drive down the U.S. trade deficit, and assist in the Obama administration’s goal of doubling exports by 2014.
“People complain that we don’t make stuff in the U.S., but this creates a whole industry,” said Clark Hahne, of Newport CH International LLC, a waste paper exporter in Orange, Calif.
In Carson, Calif., individual and commercial scrap collectors looking to sell their hauls start arriving at the three-acre Corridor Recycling yard at 6 a.m. and pull in all day, backing up trucks to huge mounds of loose cardboard and unloading them.
One regular, José Jimenez Leyva, 58, who had just dropped off a load, said local stores know him and save their boxes for him. He saves the stores the trouble of having to go to the landfill, and he earns about $90 dollars a day. “This is where I get my money for rent and bills,” he said.
Mr. Leonhardt, who arrived in his white pickup loaded with boxes, said he was laid off from a shoe manufacturing company in 2009, and that his unemployment checks ran out in December. He heard about box collecting from a neighbor, who mentioned that prices were going up. “I’d like to earn halfway decent wages again, but for now, this is a help,” he said.”
No, seriously. Over $2T in goods and services per year.
Think Boeing, Caterpillar, Merck, IBM, Microsoft, etc.
There are many, many good Americans making products and providing services for export.
Pretending that you can shut down trade and not negatively impact millions of Americans just shows that you aren't serious.