yes. and also to be able to sell their products at lower, more competitive prices while still maintaining that great margin, which is also good for consumers. free trade is a win/win for american companies and consumers.  as someone else said, tariffs are theoretically great for american workers (in industries where jobs are typically offshored) because now theres no longer an advantage for american companies to send those jobs overseas. but tariffs are awful for american consumers, because once jobs come back, weve gotta pay our workers 10x more than what a chinese sweatshop pays, and those costs obviously get passed on to consumers, making prices spike.  the biggest losers with tariffs are regular american workers who arent in industries where jobs are coming back stateside. because they still have to deal with the price hikes, but theres no reason for their wages to have gone up.  overall, ive come to think tariffs are a net negative. like, i get the rhetoric. fuck china, theyre ripping us off, and all that. but americans have gotten sooooo accustomed to cheap generic chinese products, and i just dont think most wages will go up fast enough to accommodate a future where there are no more cheap generic chinese products because we all have to buy expensive generic american products.  in short, grandma isnt gonna like that her $5.95 nightgown from wal-mart is now $17.99 for the same shitty quality. its gonna make consumer spending crater.
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