Trump is playing a dangerous game of chicken with the tariff situation. Putting tariffs on some things might make them the other countries sweat for a while before getting them to face up to reality, but ... can producers like us wait that long? Morally, he can claim the high ground, but his actions of doing the opposite in the short term of what you want in the long term kind of remind me of an Ayn Rand hero named John Galt.

I have been systematically buying relatively low technology parts and assemblies from Chinese companies for about 4 years now. My experience is that the Chinese entrepreneurs and workers are VERY dedicated and honest, at least from the dozen or so u have dealt with. THIS is why they have taken over from the relatively lazy American workers, in my experience anyway.

I think they are industrious students of the internet and have learned a LOT from the free information in the internet. They are pit bulls and just work and work until they succeed

I am a mechanical engineer, have learned a lot of electrical engineering and practical things over the years, started a number of successful companies, but I have to tell you I would be hard pressed to compete with the Chinese when making plastic moldings, metal parts, printed materials, textiles, etc. I doubt they stole any intellectual property to make what I buy from them

If a company wants to sell to China, and they have to give up willingly their secrets to do it- that’s their choice. It’s not stealing

I think a lot of trumps complaints are in response to big us companies trying to justify their laziness

If we were in the gold standard, we wouldn’t have continuing trade deficits. It’s the lack of gold standard and the printing of US dollars that keeps the Chinese Juan from rising in value and making Chinese stuff assume it’s rightful costs relative to us goods.

These are the problems that trump us trying to solve , but given he isn’t accepting the real causes, tariffs will fail as a solution. He would have to tariff all Chinese goods at 300% to have a shot at encouraging me to make here the parts I now buy from chins

Another issue is that a lot of USA suppliers simply buy and resell stuff THEY buy from China at a substantial markup. For example, we buy trailer plug wire harnesses for 65 cents from China. To buy the same thing from a us dustributor, it costs $2.20.

I don’t think his tariffs will work unless they would be like 300%. Chinese stuff is generally 1/3 the cost of buying the same thing here in the usa

I totally understand the need to deal with federal agencies such as fda , osha, epa, irs etc. one of my partners in the last business was such s person. In today’s world, the product is an essential part of a business, but it’s worthless without the permission to sell it to willing buyers- as granted by the governmental looters.

I hope your device is successful as it sounds like it would help people whose nerve pathways have been mechanically interrupted