[stewx]

Another approach would be to apply tariffs to chips coming from adversary countries, until it becomes more economical to produce them in North America.

[jasode]

>Another approach would be to apply tariffs to chips coming from adversary countries,

But Taiwan isn't an adversary of the USA so why would tariffs be "another approach"?

[melling]

Taiwan isn’t an adversary.

That’s the problem we are trying to solve: Too many important chips are made there.

[ytch]

The Information Technology Agreement of WTO[1] eliminates taxes and tariffs for IT products, I'm not sure if chips belongs to this agreements?

[1] https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dtt_e/dtt-ita_e.htm

[likeabbas]

That would increase costs for US consumers drastically in the interim 20 years it takes to get those fabs online