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by coolso 1531 days ago
Sounds like we have a solution for “encouraging” Apple and other manufacturers to start making things in the USA again…
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Tarifs are not exactly a new or unknown concept to policymakers
Import substitution industrialization, as it's known, has been tried with pretty disastrous results in Latin America in the 1950s+, though South Korea and Taiwan pulled it off successfully, arguably. The idea itself is centuries old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrial...

Think of the poor shareholders /s