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North Korea exists specifically because it doesn't rely heavily on trade. They are also super communist = NOT A FREE MARKET which was a key point to my original statements.l, so not a good comparison. Britain is a GREAT example of failure of a nation to enact trade protections and you're making my point with it. If they enacted good protections now it would hurt for a while but it WOULD drive domestic industry which is needed. If they wait 10 years it will hurt much worse. Their decline is 30 years ahead of ours. We DONT WANT TO GET TO THAT POINT. If we enact strong good tarrif policy now it will hurt for 2 years, not a decade.