Tariffs will make this much worse for two reasons: 1. importing your inputs becomes more expensive. 2. other countries will impose retaliatory tariffs on your

Tariffs will make this much worse for two reasons: 1. importing your inputs becomes more expensive. 2. other countries will impose retaliatory tariffs on your exports. This is not how to do economic development; Asian countries instead used export promotion. (…And wage suppression and currency weakening.)