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The problem is, this is the one industry I don't mind the tariffs for, really.
Firstly, the loss of plentiful textile jobs in America has reduced our potential labor pool significantly. Second, the labor standards in these nations are often well below what I'd call acceptable; and the only way to change that is to sharply reduce what we import from them and try to get some level of ethics involved.
Maybe a saner politician, after the midterms in 2026, will be able to use this to push regulations on US companies to ensure that all labor done for goods imported to the US is maintained at US wages and levels of safety and worker protection equal to our onshore workers. Instead of blanketing the nation with a tariff, make the companies responsible for the welfare of their employees (and the ethics of any material produced in their name). Plus, if they're forced to show that they've paid US-equivalent wages to every foreign employee, they'll be more inclined to move the labor on-shore, since the transportation costs will start to hurt. Of course, the current crop of corpocrats won't do that, but maybe someone will.
There's a lot of things where small, well calculated and negotiated tariffs raised up over time and with advance notice and investment, would be beneficial to the economy, human rights, and the environment.
Blanket tariffs are always bad and this clown doesn't know squat.