Featured Trump Admits His Trade Policy Would Mean Higher Prices

So you did a search, but failed to include the results of that search in your claim. So anyway..................................

 

"The United States lost more than 900,000 textile and apparel jobs from 1994 to 2005.
U.S. rural areas have been disproportionately affected by the loss of textile and apparel jobs, particularly in the Southeast, where textile and apparel plants are [were] concentrated. On December 31, 2004, the last remaining import quotas on clothing and textile products expired." LINK

 

...but will the writer of the Op admit to recognizing Trump's reasoning about how the benefits outweigh any setbacks?

 

I think that less educated US citizens also should be able to find a good job. It is much better for them to be working than drawing welfare. Textile industry jobs were good jobs.
As for illegal workers, we can do something about that, such as actually enforcing immigration laws.

Also from the link we see that the US used import quotas previously. They obviously worked

 

The point of Trump’s objective (you fail to admit, and keep in focus) being that we “MUST” deal with the “unfair” trade practices and that we MUST be willing to back it up with action, you must first demonstrate how dealing with the unfair trade practices is not necessary and/or give another better solution for backing it up other than continuing to stick our heads in the sand – Mr. Slippery Slope man. And please do show your work, BTW, if you can I’m sure Trump would appreciate a negotiator like you, so do show your work of a better way to help fix “*the problem”.

* Recognizing/admitting that the issue is fixing the unfair trade practices, first, and “recognizing” the use of tariffs is merely a bargaining tool and last resort to accomplish this objective is secondary to Trump’s point.

 

We have sewing machines, not to be confused with grandma's sewing machine, that can hem 2000 (two thousand) sleeves per hour, with one operator. Humans don't really do the sewing anymore, in modern factories They just feed cloth to machines. One machine hems and stacks sleeves and then human takes the stack to the next machine for the next step.

 

If is ain't working it needs to be changed, BUT, if you're in denial of the downhill trend of our country's trade due to unfair trade practices and the trade deficit worsening... ...I'm afraid you must have bought into the liberal progressive claims that everything is going just peachy , it may be too late for you, and I really have no use in chasing down all the parroted arguments you can search up which you would use to support denying the declining state of the economy.

 

If Walmart has a 100% markup, you might see two identical shirts, just of different brands, one for $14.00 and the other for $17.00, which are you going to buy?

 

China joined the WTO in 2001. Right around this time US textile manufacturing and garment production began to collapse.

Previously the US had had import quotas, which were all allowed to expire.

China's biggest enterprises are all state owned, which means these companies receive land and electricity for free or at a discount. The banks that finance these industries are state-owned. In other words they receive massive government support and subsidy.

This is not free enterprise, and is an unfair advantage. This is why Trump among others advocates returning to import quotas or tariffs.

We have a huge trade deficit with China. They should worry about losing the US as one of their largest customers.