Chinese Tarriffs on US manufactured goods

[Meclazine for Israel]

I think most people are aware that "The Donald" wants to slap on a 45% import tarriff on Chinese manufactured goods.

Two questions:

(a) What tarriffs do the Chinese currently impose on US manufactured goods?

(b) What impact would Donald Trump's policy actually have in the long term?

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China's protectionism isn't really from excess tariffs as far as I recall. It'm more from propping up certain businesses with loads and loads of subsidies and flooding foreign markets with them (which is why the US has pushed up 260% tariffs on Chinese steel), undervaluing the yuan (which is why Trump wants it declared a currency manipulator) and artificially keeping the price of rare earths high by limiting production. But it's not a huge outlier - all countries play the game, including the US; so Americans don't push the bottle too much because they could get by reciprocal accusations of protectionism.

As for the tariffs it would hurt Americans in the pocket, damage business (especially more "skilled" manufacturers who want a steady supply of parts to put together) and cause a trade war. The real thing that has caused employment in manufacturing to crater isn't free trade, it's automation. And Trump's plan has nothing to solve that problem, which will only get more and more prominent.

[youngohioan216]

Trump said he wants Apple to make their "computers and crap" in the USA instead of China. Isn't a big reason why computers/smartphones are made in China is because that's where the rare metals needed to make them are?

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Trump said he wants Apple to make their "computers and crap" in the USA instead of China. Isn't a big reason why computers/smartphones are made in China is because that's where the rare metals needed to make them are?

No.

[dead0man]

Trump said he wants Apple to make their "computers and crap" in the USA instead of China. Isn't a big reason why computers/smartphones are made in China is because that's where the rare metals needed to make them are?

to elaborate on jfern's accurate post.....

No, cheap labor is why.  China is just a "final assembler" place.  The important sh**t in your iSheep 4.1 is made in Thailand, Taiwan, S.Korea, Japan, the US, etc.  China does cheap plastic crap and final assembly of components fine, 'cause it's easy.  They don't (for the most part) fab the tiny circuit boards and chips, the actual important pieces of your iSheep.  It's much harder or involves engineering they haven't stolen yet (or stole just fine, they just don't know how to implement it properly....see any jet fighter they've made, ever, as proof).