No one is expecting “perfect free trade”.
We are expecting FAIR TRADE
I say put the highest tariff on all products coming from any country that they put on any of ours, be that 1% or 1000%.
There are all sorts of non-tariff barriers to the exports of the US to consider too.
“We are expecting FAIR TRADE”
Yeah. I agree and wish Trump would announce it over and over again.
Read after WW II and a bit after WW I we dropped our tariff’s to help other countries heal. Is this “no good deed should go unpunished”?
As far as the Steel Industry... the union was their demise. The stronger unions got the lower productivity went. Grew up there. Family and friends worked there. They knew the industry was going to fail. Saw it first hand.
My Grandfather worked to form the steel workers unions in the 30’s. By the late 70’s he regretted it. He went though the Bolshevik Revolution. He understood the abuse of power later in his life. Helped me to understand it earlier in my life.
“We are expecting FAIR TRADE”
Yeah. I agree and wish Trump would announce it over and over again. Finally a Pres with a brain!
Read after WW II and a bit after WW I we dropped our tariff’s to help other countries heal. Is this “no good deed should go unpunished”?
As far as the Steel Industry... the union was their demise. The stronger unions got the lower productivity went. Grew up there. Family and friends worked there. They knew the industry was going to fail. Saw it first hand.
My Grandfather worked to form the steel workers unions in the 30’s. By the late 70’s he regretted it. He went though the Bolshevik Revolution. He understood the abuse of power later in his life. Helped me to understand it earlier in my life.
Using tariffs to retaliate against those set by other countries is only part of the equation. The fact is that producers in the US are subject to overhead costs that simply don't exist in much of the developing world (environmental and safety regulations, etc). Imposing tariffs simply levels the playing field and makes for fair trade.