Loading ...Thats what it looks like, but the opposite happened, US trade deficits, for the USA, since 1970 was one hell of a huge TAX on Americans. All those trade surpluses for all other nations, for decades has pretty much bankrupted the USA.
Our living standards have been dropping since the 1970 high. High school graduates used to get a job, buy a new car and get married within three years after graduation high school.
All because we were infiltrated by global communists that made us PAY other nations to do our work. Making them wealthier and the USA poorer, re $34 trillion national debt. Globalization is or was global socialism. And it started falling apart with 9/11 the tipping point.
If some unpatriotic anti American wants to buy a new high quality Honda, a new BMW, or a new Volvo, then they and the importing dealers, SHOULD happily pay the tariffs.