Thayt is true and as a free market economist I usually do not approve of tariffs. But we we place little or no tariffs on imports from Chine and they place 25% to 50% tariffs on US goods sold in China we end up with a huge negative balance of trade. That has served to make chine wealthy. And they do not appear to have good intentions regarding the future of the US. Tariffs are the lesser of two evils.