[jenadine]

They could seek other opportunities elsewhere without adding tariff themselves: continue to import from the US and other countries like before. They may indeed export less to the US due to reduced demand from the US, but reciprocating the tariff won't help with that.

[ponector]

But the point is to hurt producers of other country, to motivate them to argue to their government about original tariffs.

There are no winners in the trade war.