National Security: Tariffs

For decades, long before he became a politician, Donald Trump has complained about our nation’s tariff agreements with many of our closest trading partners. His experience in international business gave him this perspective. The result has been an imbalance of trade, where we have a negative trade balance of $1.2 trillion annually. More than a trillion dollars of goods are coming into this country compared to what we ship overseas. America has become a consuming nation more than a producing na