You can't answer the question?
Look, it's really not a difficult concept to grasp. Since NAFTA was signed, manufacturing output has doubled in the US. Clearly tarrifs are not required to protect the manufacturing industry....only inefficient companies. If you want to protect "our products", you'll have to explain to me which ones are ours. I may rather get rid of them if they are so poor they need protection
You know damn well that I meant local businesses and you are just trying to be the smartest one on the interwebs so you win you SMRT now run along and play