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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
If those goods come from any other country but China, no tariff.

Where's your proof that the price of consumer goods are going up as a result of these tariffs?

If those goods were available at the same cost, quality and quantity as they are from China you would have a point, but we both know they aren't.

There are lots of companies, and consumers, who would welcome dealing with other countries' producers if they could deliver the goods.

Besides, I thought the whole point of this exercise was to move jobs back to the US by subsidizing otherwise uncompetitive industries. Forcing us to buy from Vietnam instead of China only causes disruption in the market without creating one US job.

37 posted on 09/25/2018 2:57:53 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo
Besides, I thought the whole point of this exercise was to move jobs back to the US by subsidizing otherwise uncompetitive industries. Forcing us to buy from Vietnam instead of China only causes disruption in the market without creating one US job.

Actually, the point of the exercise is to get China to reduce their tariffs and their trade barriers.

No one but your own cheap self is forcing you to buy products from China or Vietnam.

38 posted on 09/25/2018 3:28:22 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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