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Tariffs should only be used as a "negotiating tool" of "tit for tat" to keep other countries in check with their dumb tariffs and pseudo-tariffs.
A "strong internal industry" does better with the supplement of actually being able to export.
If one supports America raising tariffs against countries with lower tariffs, one either thinks America is incompetent at competing or tacitly admits the American worker is paid too much.
E: To go even more absurd, why stop at countries? Shouldn't US states apply tariffs against other states? Cities, townships, and counties can jump in too. Perhaps even families so that father has to make all the products for his family so that we can have an extremely strong "local economy" everywhere.
This is 5th grade level economics. It isn't hard to understand. Companies move SUPPLY production to the most ECONOMICALLY PROFITABLE PLACE, and can only sell where DEMAND is. They don't care if it's made in Taiwan or Toledo Ohio, as long as it makes the best fiscal sense. If you don't have high demand, then you don't matter, but WE DO. No company in the world wants to lose America as a customer, and if they do decide to maintain foreign production, then a new company WILL be founded domestically to compete because there will be DEMAND for their SUPPLY.