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by Retric 2553 days ago
Having multi billion dollar companies is only so useful when significant portions of production, sales, and stock ownership is outside the US.

Protectionism is theoretically a bad idea, but GDP is not the only measure of economies. Being largely self sufficient for example has real strategic advantages. In that context low tariffs (sub 10%) are not always a bad idea.