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Is there really a trade deficit when you factor in services?
That's what Trump conveniently "forgets" when talking about Evil Europe. Once you compare trade and services balance it's quite even
The US has a global trade surplus if you account for tech, financial and healthcare services.
There is an argument to be made that being able to produce certain things domestically is important from a national security standpoint (semiconductors for example).
Whether tariffs could actually produce that, no one actually knows.
Agreed. That makes the apparent dislike from the Republican administration of the chips act so weird. It would work well in tandem with a reasonable long term tariff precisely tailored to the goods you need to produce indigenously in future.
Yeah, but the Chips Act happened under Biden, so it's automatically bad. Can't do anything that makes it look like Biden did anything positive.