How would trade tariffs against China help the U.S.?
82056
Tariffs a lot of times do not acheive what they had hoped.\nTariffs against China would hopefully create jobs in the US, but in the long run may not do what the intentions were.\n\nOne thing that the US hopes to acheive through the WTO is intellectual writes, where in China they will burn or take anything we create here and sell it.  This is considered thefy in the US, so by tariffs and the WTO over time they hope to get rid of this and create an intellectual properties law and system in China.  This would be a great benefit to people in the US as they would make money off of things sold in China.
282916
(m)\n\nThe WTO's trade review, scheduled for release on April 10, will praise China for economic reforms made over the last three decades, which have helped cut by over half the amount of Chinese living in poverty and increase gross domestic product per capita nine-fold. \n\nCommitments made by China to join the WTO in 2001 "have provided a catalyst for reform, paving the way for continuing strong growth in the foreseeable future," the global commerce body said in the summary. \n\nBut "a number of challenges remain," the WTO said, citing China's currency policy, protection of intellectual property rights and slow liberalization of key service sectors such as banking and telecommunications. \n\nThe report makes no mention of a recent thaw in trade hostilities between China and the United States, which has been bogged down by Washington's US$202 billion (euro168 billion) trade deficit with the Asian country and has centered on the valuation of the Chinese yuan. \n\nAmerican manufacturers contend China is blatantly manipulating its currency, keeping it undervalued by as much as 40 percent, to make Chinese goods cheaper for American consumers and U.S. products more expensive in China. \n\nAccording to the WTO, "the move to a more flexible exchange rate could enable China to operate a more independent monetary policy and allow the market to play a greater role in determining interest rates and therefore in allocating resources." \n\nChina raised the yuan's value by 2.1 percent against the U.S. dollar when it changed its exchange rate system in July, basing the value of the yuan on a group of global currencies and allowing limited fluctuation. \n\nBut the U.S. and other countries have been pressing Beijing to raise the yuan's value further.
342444
Chinese control a vast amount of American trade. And since the trade deficit for this country has reached an all-time low of $805 Billion, they are, in fact, already one of the greatest world powers becauase of that alone. \n\nBut in reality, the idea of communism inspires no great aspirational desires in the country as a whole even though China could kick the crap out of anyone, US included, in a war by sheer manpower alone. They have a standing army of one million people and about 5-10 million more that could be called to fight if the need arose. People for them are disposable. \n\nThey could, if they wanted to, which they don't, is the answer.
389124
I'm generally for free trade.  It makes the world more "efficient" because each country is specializing and exporting its excess.  Using protective tariffs to get foreign products more expensive just makes the consumers of the country pay higher prices overall.  The country will eventually fall behind the other countries of the world.\n\nProtectionism might save some jobs in the country overall, but the extra wages are going to be offset by a higher cost of living.  It might be slightly different if you have an obnoxious country completely undercutting and taking a loss to drive out competition, but I'm more talking about the normal case.
78809
The first thing to do is to have the US manufacture things.  We have a trade deficit because we import nearly everything that we buy.  Americans have traded quality for quantity.  \n\nIf we raise the price of exports, foreign countries won't buy.  \n\nIf we lower savings, well, we can't lower it from pretty much nothing.\n\nPushing the value of the dollar won't work because that's how we fund our government deficits.\n\nWe can't really raise consumption in the US because that's the same as lowering savings.\n\nWe seem to be okay with buying junky plastic toys from China just so our kids can have a house full of stuff that they never play with and that we throw out after 2 years to make room for more junk.
858122
i think we need some one in the middle, We need the agressiveness that we have shown BUT we also need to meet the concerns of other nations aswell. We are not the only ones that are affected. \n\nI think that the democrats will help our war situation on the american level but leave iraq in the toilet. The will fix our foreign relations with europe but we will suffer from china as the Democrats are more prohuman rights and china treats their workers like crap. So less trade out of china means an increase in prices, the price of oil will increase and many of our issues on alternative fuels wont be solved because of all the special intrest groups.\n\nSo I guess we can only wait and see what will happen but those are my predictions.
542543
You weren't really specific with the question.\n\nThere are a site that talk about asset protection theory:\nhttp://www.assetprotectiontheory.com/\n\nIt deals with sheltering assets among other things.\n\nYou might also be talking about countries.  Sometimes, countries place tariffs on imports to make domestic goods more desirable.  This might lead to a better industry inside the countries and prevents foreign dumping.  There's more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff
520486
Why should it? I look at where things are made from before I buy them. Don't you? Its called free trade. What our country is based upon. America was built by the Chinese also, think about the first railroad system bringing on the industrial revolution. There is a lot more to America than you care to know. Which is very little. Many Germans fought FOR the US also as did many Chinese. Not all are as you say.\nYou are blinded by hate.
134690
It goes both ways. American invests in the cheap imports from China. Things such as tvs, cars, clothing, and electronics are exported from that country to the U.S. \n\nYet, U.S. materials and U.S. finances are exported largely to China. Examples include wood, cotton, machinery, dye, food, and businesses. This import/export agreement ,along with low tariffs, gives China the supplies it needs to become a bigger world leader and gives the U.S. more influence in that country.
1018415
We need abundant trade with China to finance Bush's stupid war in Iraq and just pay for all of the the out-of-control Republican spending we need China to purchase American debt.  So we turn a blind eye to that kind of thing - and Tibet and..
1057283
Its time to bring back tariffs that Reagan reversed. You want to make stuff somewhere else for other countries go ahead but if you want to ship it hear its going to cost you, that is how you protect the people from the economic terrorist.
314036
China is pretty smart... I think we can all agree they have an artifically devalued currecy, which gives them a nice advantage in the world market, but hey it's not like the U.S. doesn't have some nice advatages too. I worry a lot about human rights issues there and I wish they could maybe set a little better example for Southeast Asia. But as for it's role in the international community, it's a billion people, huge workforce for potentially cheap labor and huge market for imported goods. The needs are pushing up the prices for goods internationally though, like oil, but hey that's consumerism.
31704
The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is productivity.  The Chinese government provides incentives for investment in capital and training that yield high levels of productivity and quality.  China's ability to produce quality goods continues to grow each year.  This is due to significant investments in state of the art manufacturing technology.  There are many hidden costs that offset the labor savings associated with Chinese manufacturing.  These include logistics, inventory, timeliness, and the potential for loss of intellectual property.  With the proper investments, U.S. manufacturing can compete in medium and low volume manufacturing because the potential downsides outweigh the labor savings.  \n\nPolitically, China is definitely a threat.  As the Chinese middle class develops, their market will continue to grow.  This will be especially true when the currency is allowed to float.  This will put pressure on the U.S. as China develops into an economic superpower, and naturally pursues its spot as a political superpower.\n\n5,000 years of Chinese history indicate that the Chinese are not focused on global domination.  The meaning of the word China in Mandarin is Middle Earth.  The culture reinforces the fact that China is the center of the world.  They are focused on bettering their world, not destroying ours.  We must produce policies that realistically address the changing dynamics of the geopolitical environment to ensure that we do not become an unintended casualty along the way.
859567
Free Trade is driving integration of Mexico and USA faster than any other treaty. The reality is Mexican economy collapse we get a surge of migrants from Mexico and it will cost more in tax payers money in the long term to protect the border. Good idea be to work with Mexico to improve their standard of living so they would not need to migration north, and America to realize that a growing Mexican at a 5% clip a year would add 1.5% more economic growth to the Untied States and start to reverse the migration process, and opening the borders long term would be benefit for all involved do you really wanna get a passport, and paper just to drive to Mexico for a visit. We need to speed integration with Mexico at the same time put of tariffs on China to reduce pressure on the low-skilled workers in both countries at will never compete with sub-par low wages. China is cheating the currency markets that is driving wages down in Mexico and the United States. We cant solve the Mexican immigration problem with unilateral solutions it requires bilateral solutions to resolve this long term.
1106897
U.S.A.and new contender, China
739494
Not only are we endorsing the slave labor in China, we are also going to reduce our wages to the same level in order to compete.\n\nWe should not trade with nations that do not observe basic human rights.
130138
I'd say trade barriers like quotas, tarriffs and subsidies. Those things hurt the economy and hurt people in foreign countries. If the US and other industrialized nations all cut such programs the world would be a more well fed, productive and peaceful place.