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You really think that the American steel industry is locked out of China by tariffs?
*headslap*
There are problems around the world with regard to tariffs and trade barriers, sure. The US has the casting vote in the WTO, World Bank and IMF. In effect, the agenda of those institutions are set in the white house.
When the US is touting that it will rip up its own regulations, just to suit noisy idiots with vision as far as their eyelashes, then the rest of the world has a perfect right to kick up a stink.
You might want to look at the case against the US in the area of sugar, particularly with regard to Jamaica. In return for IMF loans after they left the British Empire, the IMF demanded they lower import tariffs on sugar. Cheap, subsidised sugar from the US flooded their market and decimated the internal and external market for Jamaica's number one crop. Jamaica still has nothing in the way of internal industry or agriculture to speak of. The USA was even campaigning to have their protected banana market in the UK ripped to shreds...
Heavy industry was crucified in the UK post-WW2, with the USA (and others) cheering the process along.
Protectionist policies (and other things) in the developed nations turned what should have been a 2-4 year problem during the 30's into a decade-or-more-long crisis that was only solved by World War.
Enjoy those balls while you've got them.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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