In the extreme, What you're saying then is that Americans will have to again get used to eating potatoes all winter long, and blueberries only in August. That won't happen, and also American diets have changed. Yes, seasonal availability started the trend, but for decades now US distributors and manufacturers are used to buying vegetables simply where they are cheapest. Remember storage and global transport are much better than they were 50 years ago also.
There will be no easy way for US farmers to meet US demand for things like garlic, peaches, spinach, lettuce etc. etc..
I'm not disagreeing with Trump's trade policies and most of these products are coming from more agreeable suppliers than China, such as Argentina, Peru, Chile, even Mexico. Its just a comment on my experience in Agricultural economics.
You still miss the point of these tariffs. They are to eliminate Chinese, etc tariffs that exist on US goods today, eliminate our ability to bring certain products even into those countries at all, and eliminate forced IP theft. The only tool Trump has to go after those, short of a shooting war, is to respond with tariffs ourselves - which should have been done 20, 30 years ago.
Exactly. My experience is that international agricultural trade tends to be more north-south than east-west in nature ... to take advantage of the growing season in the opposite hemisphere when it’s winter up here.