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It brings in jobs from manufacturing given the levees will make it more expensive to import from China. At least that is the rationale.

• robryan 9y ago
  Only if companies perceive this as stable. It might take 10-20 years to pay off the investment of moving manufacturing to the US. Trump policies are very unstable themselves but there is a good chance these policies might be quickly reversed by the next administration.
  • rbobby 9y ago
    There's also a chance Trump himself might reverse course in the next few weeks. Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs went from "no exceptions" to a handful over the course of a month.
  • product50 9y ago
    Most policies are long term. You can't win this game if your timeline is 2 yrs or you just give up assuming in the long term we are all doomed.
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