Should the U.S. increase tariffs on imported products from China?
A tariff is a tax levied on the import and exports of goods in international trade. The U.S. currently trades over $590 billion in goods with China every year. In 2015 China exported $466 billion worth of goods to the U.S. and imported $123 billion worth of U.S. goods. The 2015 China - U.S. trade imbalance of 344% is a new world record. During the 2016 Presidential race Donald Trump proposed levying a 45% tariff on China and any other U.S. trade partner which violates trade deals through currency manipulation and illegal export subsidies. Proponents of tariffs argue that China breaks trade…
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6% Yes, China should be punished for artificially manipulating their currency |
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@8JCJLWV3yrs3Y
If yes, it would need to be done in a carefully thought-out way. I can imagine security reasons to do this, but there will be plenty of unintended consequences to be considered.
@98PHPKM1yr1Y
Yes, but only to induce revenue, not to protect industries
@98L5XFM1yr1Y
Yes, but I think we should end America's reliance on China once and for all and start making medicine and all of our products in America in order for the USA to dominate the world economically.
@8D7ZTLD4yrs4Y
No, but their unfair trade practices and theft of intellectual property must be addressed.
@8SZMD6J3yrs3Y
No, sanction them instead.
@8JQ5G733yrs3Y
Yes, and other countries that China has manufacturing in
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@ISIDEWITH3wks3W
Who decides whether TikTok stays Chinese, is banned or sold? Washington. Who determines whether an American or Japanese company gets to buy United States Steel? Washington. Who is giving Intel $8.5 billion to make semiconductors in the U.S.? You get the picture.Across the U.S., business decisions once made in boardrooms or shareholder meetings increasingly depend on politics. The U.S. isn’t sliding toward socialism, in which the government controls the means of production. It may, however, be slouching toward state capitalism, in which government regularly intervenes in business to ensure it serves the national interest.The problem, as both the TikTok and U.S. Steel affairs show, is that the national interest is constantly being redefined to fit the political priorities of the day.While the U.S. has never been a laissez-faire paradise, more than other countries it believed in free-market capitalism and let efficiency and profits determine the allocation of capital.Neither Donald Trump nor President Biden believe in that. Both are happy to use all the levers of the federal government, whether taxes, subsidies, regulations or the bully pulpit, to tilt business decisions toward their own vision of the national interest.When the House of Representatives voted to force the sale or ban of TikTok, the short-video app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, China’s Ministry of Commerce demanded, according to Xinhua, that the U.S. “earnestly respect the market economy and the principle of fair competition, and provide an open, fair, just and nondiscriminatory environment for enterprises from all countries.”
@ForsakenT4riff2mos2MO
To circumvent tariffs imposed on its exports to the United States, China is increasing its use of Mexico as a conduit. Beijing’s particular focus is on its automobile export market.Its motive isn’t complicated. Cars and car parts imported from Mexico face tariffs of 0%-6%. Meanwhile, cars and car parts imported directly from China pay 25%.As China struggles to boost economic growth, a strategic priority for Xi Jinping’s Communist Party, tariff evasion makes good sense. But from America’s perspective, it should be unacceptable. The U.S. should force Mexico to ensure it is not helping China undermine U.S. tariffs.The U.S. import market is too important to Mexico for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to ignore. According to the World Bank, U.S.-destined exports account for 78% of Mexico’s export market. Even a small reduction would cause significant harm to Mexico’s economy. While Obrador’s preferred candidate is leading in the polls for the June presidential election, economic strife with the U.S. might threaten this lead.The U.S. could warn Mexico that unless it introduces legislation to ensure Chinese conformity with U.S. tariff payments, Washington will slap tariffs on one or more of the big three Mexico-to-U.S. export sectors. These are the automobile, machinery, and electrical equipment sectors. Exports approach 45% of Mexico’s total gross domestic product. The country could not easily tolerate even moderate U.S. tariff actions.Chinese-manufactured cars are not as problematic as the fentanyl that China floods across the U.S.-Mexico border, but they do represent a deliberate effort to damage American prosperity. They are central to Xi’s effort to destroy the U.S. automobile industry by flooding the marketplace with cheaper Chinese cars. Xi is applying the same strategy toward the European Union, earning rare ire from Sino-friendly French President Emmanuel Macron.China’s cars are cheaper for two reasons. First, union domination of U.S. and European automakers makes them inefficient. Unions divert resources from productive enterprises toward unsustainable salaries and pensions. Second, China blatantly subsidizes its automakers, making a mockery of World Trade Organization rules. These subsidies prompted the Trump administration to impose tariffs on China in the first place.This isn’t ultimately about Mexico, of course. The U.S. should seek mutually productive economic relations with Mexico. Benefitting from its trade with the U.S., Mexico has been able to develop its economy, improve the lives of its people, and reduce Mexican-origin immigrant pressure on the U.S. border. All of these things are positive. We should hope trade with Mexico grows. What is not positive is China’s manipulation of Mexico to serve its own ends. Obrador and his government must be made to understand that the U.S. will not allow Beijing’s deceptions to continue, and Washington will take all necessary action to ensure they are ended
@MeerkatLarry2mos2MO
China and Russia are buying data from brokers who assemble huge amounts of information on people, from favorite hobbies to household income and health conditions, and then typically sell it to marketers that target them with ads.The U.S. said the countries were using their access to the data for blackmail and surveillance and could employ artificial intelligence to enhance their use of the information. The White House made the officials available on the condition of anonymity.Biden will ask the Justice Department to write rules restricting the sale of information about Americans’ locations, health and genetics to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, as well as any entities linked to those countries. The restrictions would also cover financial information, biometric data and other types of information that could identify individuals and sensitive information related to the government.The executive order is also the latest escalation of a digital cold war between Washington and Beijing. The United States has cut Chinese hardware manufacturers off from crucial supplies and ried to force the sale of TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance.Mr. Biden’s order is part of a trend in which countries are increasingly trying to control data for their protection and economic benefit.
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