Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g...
by debt on Friday June 15, 2018 @12:44PM
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"so you would end up punishing firms that are otherwise innocent"
That's exactly what the current tariffs do. So I guess if it's too much work to vet individual firms, we just lazily start a trade war? Again, for this administration, sounds about right.
You're talking about the entire supply chain, so you would end up punishing firms that are otherwise innocent because unbeknownst to them they bought resisters or capacitors or silicon plates from a bad actor.
A smart approach is just not feasible at this scale.