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Re:Tariffs Are Proving 'Big Headache' for Tech Giants, Says ... by CPLX on Friday March 14, 2025 @06:50PM (#43368156)
> If tariffs work at all (which is doubtful)

Of course they work. China has used them to go from people living in huts to the high tech manufacturing center of the world.

Re:Tariffs Are Proving 'Big Headache' for Tech Giants, Says ... by hamilyon2 on Friday March 14, 2025 @06:57PM (#43368207)
Protectionism only works in combination with other measures. If you indiscriminately shield domestic enterprise from competition, you just get less competition and nothing else. Which is usually not enough.
Re:Tariffs Are Proving 'Big Headache' for Tech Giants, Says ... by CPLX on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:03PM (#43368986)
Arguable. But yes of course the best lesson to learn is that tariffs are one of the fundamentals tools of an effective industrial policy.