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The U.S. sometimes imposes tariffs far lower than other nations impose on us, often for the exact same product. For example, the E.U. levies as high as a 67% tariff on American pork while America only imposes a tariff as high as 6% on E.U. pork.

The United States Reciprocal Trade Act would give the president greater authority to impose tariffs equal to levels other nations impose on us. What is your view of this pending legislation?

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Ted
Ted
4 years ago

I totally agree with equal trade. I don’t think we should trade with countries that are against our nation and our human rights standards.

Edward C Ross
Edward C Ross
4 years ago

Communist China is not playing fair. Their goods should have tarriffs

johnH
johnH
4 years ago

I oppose giving POTUS any more power in tariffs & trade wars. This should be in hands of Congress to decide as they have a lot more people ato get input from & will listen. If Trump continues with tariff war with China the USA will suffer a lot of pain in the next few years. This country does not like to be bullied & has thousands of years of patience to counter more tariffs. Write to Trump & tell him to quit trade wars that are so easy to win.

Robert Wallace Waldrop
Robert Wallace Waldrop
4 years ago

Oh Yeah-We see how The Tariffs are [not] working! tRUMP should have left well enough[though not perfect] alone!

Richard L Mastronardi
Richard L Mastronardi
4 years ago

Absolutely I agree with the president that adding the citizenship question is crucial to collect an accurate count of the people in this country. This action would enhance the effectiveness for the intended purpose of taking the population count. The question would apply to everyone equally and that is not discrimination. There is nothing unfair about including the question but it is unfair to all people when the question is excluded do to those democrats who object to anything the president does which carries over to all of us who voted for President Trump and who happen to support his reasoning for including the citizenship question. Let’s clarify what the whole issue is really about! It’s about democrats contradicting the president with the hopes of acquiring votes in the near future from ILLEGAL IMMIGRATS in exchange for democrats efforts to facilitate the illegal entrance of people from other counties which is not limited to people of “Hispanic” decent. Those who reside in the United States illegally may oppose the inclusion of the “Question” on the grounds that answering it may be self incriminating. All people in our country are subject to the same laws and as in any nation if we break the law we can assume to pay the consequences agreed upon for those who choose to violate them. Sounds fair enough! Laws are made and put into effect to protect us but it is time for great concern when people who are breaking the law have input into deciding what questions our government can ask on a questionnaire on the basis that it might identify them as an illegal immigrant. It is also an ideal setup/convenience for War criminals, MS13 gang infiltration – helps cut paper work for recruiting new members, and we can be sure any Anti- American terrorist organizations will take all the time saving conveniences they can get. The President is not the problem, he is on our side. It’s too bad more Americans aren’t!

Jay Ventress
Jay Ventress
4 years ago

Why do we buy pork from the UK at all?

Cynthia Sarver
Cynthia Sarver
4 years ago

Thank you for giving us a voice in government.
I wish government would listen to us when we say “stop giving any assistance to ILLEGALS. No Social Security check, no welfare, no food stamps, etc.
That would stop or slow down their coming into America.

David
David
4 years ago

Amazing how the left is all for EQUAL rights so they can kill babies, force the LGBT thing on us, but when it comes to trade tariffs they don’t want equality. All their equality rights here are nothing but rights to bully the American people. I’m with one commenter that said we should re-elect Trump AND not elect another Democrat to office for 50 years or so and clean out the RINOs out of Congress.

Dale Hammond
Dale Hammond
4 years ago

Why have presidents, both Dems and Repubs, not taken actions on these tarrifs long ago? How totally Stupid for the illogical, insane proportions: 67 persent to 6 percent tarriffs???? What idiotic people “bargin” those Stupid agreements???0

Steve Constantinides
Steve Constantinides
4 years ago

While I favor giving the president freedom to negotiate tariffs to establish a balanced tariff situation, as Trump suggested in
Europe: “Why not eliminate all tariffs?”
One issue I have not seen addressed in the comments (it may be buried somewhere) is that companies can shift the country of origin to avoid tariffs. For example, magnets shipped from China to the USA used to be charged a 3.5% tariff. Many companies avoided this by shipping from China to Mexico or Malaysia and then importing the product into the USA – from countries without a tariff on the product.
Mentioned in one of the responses was manipulation of taxes to benefit exporters. In Europe this is accomplished via rebates on VAT. But each country will have its own methods.
The “tariff” game is a complicated one…

BJ D
BJ D
4 years ago

I fully stand with President Trump and our great nation. Most of our Representatives and Senators in Congress DO NOT support the United States and in my opinion are NOT Patriots. We need equal footing economically throughout the world. This Act would allow the President to be able to work to achieve that.

Allan
Allan
4 years ago

Tariffs are really the only tool he has.

Chad N.
Chad N.
4 years ago

I trust Trump. I DON’T trust ANY “Change America” Democrat’s. Have you noticed almost all TRUMP bumper stickers have been taken off. Is it because we are weak and fear for our jobs, our families. The media is not our friend and yet we feed it to our families and the more it is read or watched, the more it is digested. California and Texas Democrats
are sending millions of dollars to crush and stop a well liked Republican candidate in the state election to gain a pivotal seat in Virginia.
Billionaires move many of our elections. That needs to changed

Harold Evans
Harold Evans
4 years ago

We support what President Trump is trying to do.

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Steve
Steve
4 years ago

I know this is not relevant to the topic but I was so proud to read today in USA Today that the US postal service has removed approx 300,000 employees over the past 7-8 years.
I did not think this was possible. Now I see that maybe, just maybe, we can do this in all federal agencies and perhaps ( I know I’m dreaming) we can reduce the
cost of fed govt. But, NAH !!! P.S. I haven ‘t smoked anything. This is my real brain.

Robert Sanchez
Robert Sanchez
4 years ago

When stationed in Japan back in 1982 , I learned they marked up a Corvette 100 percent in reselling that car to their own people.
Upon further questioning, I was informed that the Japanese government imposed a 50 percent import fee, to discourage the sale of imports over their own vehicles.
I’d say it’s past due time to reciprocate!!!

James Michael Hood
James Michael Hood
4 years ago

There should be another option. Tariffs should only be levied in order to get revenue for the government. Taxes of any kind should never be used by government to influence or control commerce or other behavior of any kind. Government must get out of the business of social and economic engineering. If they said we need to collect tariffs because we need the money in order to stop spending more than we are taking in, which is truly something we need badly, I would be all for it. But to say we should impose tariffs to balance economic scales is arrogant and presumptuous. That isn’t government’s job, balancing economic scales. That is the job of the free market.

William F Rodebaugh
William F Rodebaugh
4 years ago

Equal trade is what we all want. I have a friend who just lost his job as a result of the China tariff but he knows in the end equal trade is the answer. I’m not an economist or an import/export expert I just can’t understand outside of wages it can cost less to make, ship, transport and distribute goods from China into the USA. One day I’ll have to get a lesson in that.

Gregory Barber
Gregory Barber
4 years ago

I am always a little concerned when percentages are used instead of quantities or dollars!

Don Caisley
Don Caisley
4 years ago

This is just common sense. Why should our producers be subject to dumping by other countries into our market and be barred from the same rights in theirs? It’s just common sense, something liberals have in extremely short supply. They always have grand ideas about how they can spend my money when they’re in charge.

Jay D
Jay D
4 years ago

I have said since I was educated by the late, great Paul Harvey, Fair and Equal trade. If other countries put no tariffs on our goods, we put no tariffs on theirs. However, if they put any tariffs on our goods, no matter what, we put the exact same tariffs on their goods. Be it 1% or 1000%, the exact same amount. If that’s not fair, I don’t know what is. We have been raked over the coals for so long that the big wigs in Washington are afraid of their own shadows, it’s about time that we throw 95% of them out and put in people that LOVE our country and our people and stand up for OUR rights.

Richard S
Richard S
4 years ago

Free Trade currently is all myth, so until we achieve that end result with all trade partners, this is a reasonable measure until the world lives in the 21st century on goods transfers.

Daddy four boys
Daddy four boys
4 years ago

Think Smoot Hawley tariff act. . . . . History will repeat itself when repeating history.

Lee Glidewell
Lee Glidewell
4 years ago

President Trump’s promise said “America first”, & he meant it! Let the other nations & THERE LEADERS fend for themselves. KAG, GBA, Trump/Pense 2020!

Daddy four boys
Daddy four boys
4 years ago

I oppose the bill, it would lead to trade wars. Basic Economics . . . .Smoot-Hawley tariff act. History will repeat itself when repeating history.

G shears
G shears
4 years ago

The United States has been taken advantage of by crooked politicians and unfair trade practices for far too long. It’s time to put American first for a change and the hell with these countries that have been doing nothing but using us and plundering our riches. ( Trump wins in a landslide) 2020.

Charles Pulaski
Charles Pulaski
4 years ago

The new communist party AKA democrats are the greatest threat to our nation greater than the Japanese and nazis

Dennis Mcknight
Dennis Mcknight
4 years ago

I feel for the immigrants & the 3rd world countries, most politicians get rich got no care for us low & middle class humans. They kick the can down the road, go to their 2 or 3 houses & we are forgotten. So tariffs need to be equal or completely removed for all. On the air plane, rules put your oxygen mask on first than your child. Same for our country fix our pot holes, homeless, all veterans who keep our streets safe, let Trump run the country, keep jobs over here at any cost. Bring GOD back to our country before He lifts His hand off our country. We & Israel are the only few countries who would keep our world safe. Love you United States, I am a USMC Viet Nam vet served all of 1969 in a village outside HUE city, lived in 3rd world country for one year, & we don’t realize how fortunate we are. Tariffs will work if the cry babies here will learn to do with out, some of the other countries supplies that are imported here.

Tim W
Tim W
4 years ago

Just implement the FairTax and start off that way. Everything imported gets the tax added to it; everything exported is more competitive where ever it is going. If that doesn’t level the field, then reciprocate.

Julia
Julia
4 years ago

Ppl get bleeding hearts for the rest of the world & then act like Americans are bad ppl. No, we are not bad ppl. We are hard working ppl. It’s not our fault the rest of the world chooses to live in poverty. I think most Americans do what they can to help ppl near & far. The trade deals definitely aren’t fair. I am truly happy that we have someone in power that is for the hardworking ppl of this great nation. TY P Trump

Feathers
Feathers
4 years ago

USA is treating other countries as if it is still just after the 2nd World War. USA must stop this support and giving and allowing unequal trading. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Fair is fair. Stop being suckers and laughing-stocks of the World. Those countries are no longer beggars so they must be treated as equals. Pay their fair share.

Carl Marcellino
Carl Marcellino
4 years ago

This could be tricky, the United States have imposed so many sanctions (which controls trade) that many countries are getting ready to trade in euros and not dollars, the current market level of dollars as the default currency has fallen to 61%. If this continues for very much longer the US economy will fail and we will not be able to print money as we do now because no-one will need it any more. So tariffs, trade and sanctions are tied together.

B. Kelly
B. Kelly
4 years ago

Based on the way the poll question was written, it is not a surprise that the numbers show an overwhelming support for such legislation. And it should. Reagan was a nationalist, Bush #1 was a globalist. Clinton………….well, he did what he did. Bush #2 was a globalist like his old man and Osama was an anti-nationalist. Now we have President Trump who has a platform of good (sometimes great) ideas but he caves so none of the good / great ideas matter.
But to the topic of tariffs. I have to ask this. The United States has been trading, importing and exporting goods globally since its inception…..why are we 240 plus years into the gig and now needing a bit of legislation to allow the POTUS more power? Sorry folk, I have to scratch my head on this one.

BBat
BBat
4 years ago

It depends on the timing of the tariffs, can’t be done all at once. Needs to be a thoughtful process.

Deb Foster
Deb Foster
4 years ago

Equal tariffs? FINALLY

Sharon Rice
Sharon Rice
4 years ago

I would hope people can use simple common sense on this issue. With

KatieM
KatieM
4 years ago

i support free trade.

Maurice
Maurice
4 years ago

How much better off (more prosperous) would American Citizens be if We reversed +(30) years of economic-political deceipt; and nurtured balanced trade relations; replaced (ended) federal income taxation; repealed the ACA-Pharma fraud; insured immigration based on merit; and ended the saboteur, Federal Reserve?

Samuel Fink
Samuel Fink
4 years ago

The President should not be capped in the level of tariffs that he imposes. He should be able to exceed tariffs from other countries.

Mike Smith
Mike Smith
4 years ago

Turnabout is fair equal play.

Jim Park
Jim Park
4 years ago

The name chosen for a piece of legislation is often misleading, chosen for political purposes. Without actually reading a bill, I am reluctant to support or oppose after hearing such a short description, In principal, if that’s all this proposed legislation does, I am in support.

Becca
Becca
4 years ago

Indeed! My fervent prayer is that by the end of P.Trump’s 2024 term that this great nation will be in a position to stand tall and strong. Not to be negative but I fear after all his hard work some idiot will be elected and un-do every thing that he has accomplished. I have absolutely NO faith in the next generation to see the forest for the trees. I continuously encounter these un-educated kids who have no idea how to think for themselves, problem solve or to see the bigger picture, their lack of education shows in almost every thing they say and do. Oh wait, they know how to protest for ideas that are not truly theirs and they cannot even explain. This is truly the biggest issue facing our country today and I fear the future results of it.

james r haren
james r haren
4 years ago

at the beginning tariffs help build this country to become strong.

Rick
Rick
4 years ago

This bill is great as long as Trump is in office but….there are very few I would trust with this same power AND we have already seen, have lots of history on what Congress would do if they were the people who decided. Trump is doing the right things for all the right reasons. I doubt anybody else could do this job well!!

Wayne D Peterkin
Wayne D Peterkin
4 years ago

So called “free trade” is not what’s needed. “Fair trade” should always be the target. That not only means no tariffs by either trading partner but also no currency manipulation, quotas, or other tactics to tilt the playing in favor of one trading partner or the other. This legislation is a step in the direction of “fair trade”, so it should be widely supported. But we all need to understand that it is only one step while others are needed.

Keith r Lynch
Keith r Lynch
4 years ago

Yes! Pass this legislation. Make it “tit for tat”. We can no longer subsidize the world. Pres. Trump is 100% right in the principle. “America first”.

Peter
Peter
4 years ago

Trump is dead on with his foreign policy.. I don’t know who gave our so-called allies we’re prone to black mail but in my travels and from the opinions so profuse here it seems certain “allies” think that America must pay protection in order to maintain a solid reputation at home and abroad. America stands on its own merits which would leave America alone in the World in the pursuit of self-reliance and self-sufficiency.. These are actual cultural phenomena also related to our patrimony and our most worthy reputation. YES.. Trump should do whatever is in his power to let our allies know that # 1 We will not be held hostage to such impotent threats, # 2 we can expect a return on our investment in terms of results, accountability and if possible equity.. # 3 American citizens are only human and should be held to the same standards as other countries.. if these standards are lax, permissive, laissez-faire, corrupt or profitable..then Americans should all enjoy these rights and privileges also..

Jesse
Jesse
4 years ago

Do unto others, as you would have them do unto to you.
And everybody wants to stick it to us. KInda’ like a football we got 11 men on the field and the other team has 33.

Brett
Brett
4 years ago

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David
David
4 years ago

If The President is judicious it is an effective tool but in general does hurt our consumers because it makes things more expensive.

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