.....uh, okay? how so?
if anything it was an attempt to punish the chinese for industrial espionage, not because trade Self Delete was inevitable otherwise...
we literally did this to ourselves
like, you think the companies just handed over the loving patents to all the chinese people? no! they literally took risks to maximize profits.
the chinese gave us cheap labour, we took it because the greedy forgets in charge of the companies wanted more money. but then they got surprised when the chinese started making the stuff we told them to and selling it for their own profits.
in any sense, the US companies will just pass the tarifs along to the consumer and make everything more expensive.
welcome to capitalism baby