What's the "true" cost of making, for instance, steel and/or aluminum in China if we realistically factor in the lack of environmental protections there?
Steel imports at least, should be tariffed to reflect environmental damage where it's made even if the Chinese oligarchs are blind to it.
As for other nations, case by case.
And yeppers, I'm assuming strictest environmental protections exist here, if that's not the case, makes sense to me to subsidize imports from places with better protections.
First step in cleaning up China's catastrophic environmental damage is to stop paying them to keep doing it. In a perfect world the tariff would go to environment remediation funding. I'm not that naïve . . . .
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Steel imports at least, should be tariffed to reflect environmental damage where it's made even if the Chinese oligarchs are blind to it.
As for other nations, case by case.
And yeppers, I'm assuming strictest environmental protections exist here, if that's not the case, makes sense to me to subsidize imports from places with better protections.
First step in cleaning up China's catastrophic environmental damage is to stop paying them to keep doing it. In a perfect world the tariff would go to environment remediation funding. I'm not that naïve . . . .
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