[Eric Pode of Croydon]

I am in favor of true free trade, by which I mean that we get to sell our products in other countries at prices of our choosing, and they bet to sell their products here at prices of their choosing.

I don't have a problem with a tariff applied to retaliate against other countries that don't allow American products to be fairly priced.

And I don't have a problem with a tariff which is across the board and applied to all foreign products evenly for the purposes of raising general revenue.

What I do have a problem with are specific tariffs on specific products, targeted to protect the politically influential and big donors (sugar, steel, etc) from having to compete.

[Rashputin]

That can happen and has but the more common case is like China where they heavily, and I do mean heavily, subsidize steel and aluminum production exactly because the supply chain and manufacture of those two employ a lot of Chinese.

Tariffs on specific products that are subsidized so that we are not on a level playing field are exactly the right approach.