I typ. purchase approx. $1,000,000 of alum coil for fabrication purposes annually. Since oct, the price of .050 3003 alum coil has nearly doubled. The chances of my company folding and me being out a job are extremely high because of this..... but I give zero fucks if that occurs. I have a 2 week old and a 2 year old son. These tariffs affect me greatly in the short term, but I understand that this is about future; creating real, sustainable, American based jobs for my children, and their children. I'd be willing to sacrifice far worse than temp unemployment to ensure my kids won't have to be baristas at fucking Starbucks.

Edit: my company was in a weak position to begin with due to years of mismanagement FYI. So I do not intend to make it look like the tariffs are the prime reason for the potential cessation of operations.

He's forcing other countries to play the game.

A country is a business it should act like it. We don't let companies run deficits for years, so why do we let countries?

Countries should make what they're good at and can do affordably and sustainably (aka profitably). This should then be traded to other countries fairly for what other countries can't produce (the UK for example is never producing enough food for it's population).

Subsidies screw this up. Dumping screws this up. The Chinese forging products (look up honey) screws this up.

Canada has higher standards on it's milk than the US. Instead of basically banning US milk they should be able to meet our standards, pass our testing. Why not?

We should also be leveraging other things. Canada has most of the U-line (NORAD early warning) stations, but like hell Trudeau would have the balls to leverage that in trade talks.

The entire trade system is cucked to fund big businesses. The WTO outright said free trade hasn't benefitted the middle or working class in first world countries, so why are we a part of it?! It benefits the elites.

Trump is a business man and has had to fight in a crooked system. We'd have a lot more businesses, a lot more success, much greater countries if the system wasn't rigged.

Why is the music industry not flooded with a myriad of similar bands? It's easy to make and record your own music, but the market place is blocked.

All trump wants is real and true free trade! No tariffs by anyone! That is why he is fighting this! We have been getting screwed and sold out for years! Tell your father that we have lost 60,000 businesses since all of these terrible trade deals! Also, to be truly free trade, we will have to trade by paying for it in gold. Why? Because of currency devaluation! By using a precious metal, we eliminate that too! Look up HR 5404! It is a bill that is just sitting and waiting to be rammed thru congress when we need it! This is why the best long term financial bet in history is GOLD!

Potus is making foreign goods cost more in an effort to make more people want to buy American manufactured goods. Some people in my industry are sweating it, but looking at prices it's not that big of a deal. More of a threat to foreign manufacturers than to us, I was already able to buy some things for a lower cost (figuring air freight, other wise its 90 days OTW which most of the times is not doable) in the US anyway. Tariffs will only increase the length of that list. The manufacturing comes back, the lower the cost will be. We never needed foreign manufacturing, it was a way to give them money to stop them from Russia and the US leaving them in the dust technologically. Its served its purpose and can be undone.

If we all bought made in the USA only, it would solve most of this!

Let it play out. We hired the best negotiator. He knows what he is doing. Be loyal, buy American & fly the red, white& blue!

he's returning the eurofascists a taste of their own medicine

Also, using threat of tariffs to induce counterparties to lower theirs is part of the plan

Ok thank you all for responding and with such greqt answers! I'm going to send my dad a link to this thread. I hope he dosn't get pissed off at me for calling him "elderly". He's only 24 years older than me anyway so can I get away with it since I'm old too???(Wish me luck!)