Feb. 7, Macabe Keliher, an associate professor in the Clements Department of History at SMU Dallas, for a commentary that cautions that the implementation of tariffs and loss of international partners will expose U.S. inadequacies in manufacturing. Published in The Hill under the heading Tariffs won’t bring back American manufacturing: https://tinyurl.com/33vchhww
Tariffs targeting China, Canada and Mexico reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the American economy — and especially America’s manufacturing challenges. While the proposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico have been paused for 30 days, those on China remain, and there is little hope they will revive American manufacturing.
The uncomfortable truth is that we can’t simply tax our way back to industrial dominance — we’ve lost not just factories but the entire ecosystem that once made American manufacturing great.
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