Why hasn't the United States put a tariff on China?

Hi Awinds, a tariff will hurt the consumers of US. Imagine the declining currency has already increased the price of imported goods, even those from China by more than 10%. If the US government adds a 25% tariff, the price increase will go up by another 25%, do you think the poor people in US will like it? China is the main producer of clothing and shoes in the world. At a time when so many people are unemployed, and they are counting pennies, any increase in price means political crisis.

Besides Trump has not been elected as president yet, I think that it is because China has a large army and all those young man who will be a force against us if they attack. I do wish they would put a tariff on China. They are allowed to do things, like pollute the atmosphere and the environmentalists turn a blind eye. Yes I think it is fear of what they can do, not that their goods are cheaper. Why they have many human right violations but not a peep about it except for Christian and Right news sources.

I think alot of this is in part because they own a great deal of our debt and you don't want to tick off the hand that keeps your country afloat do ya? But yes I agree if you put tariff's on things from China it could help our economy but at the same time perhaps start a war. I've heard another solution being get organized labor unions in there to force their wages up and demand benefits then it won't be as profitable to make things there.

I think that it has to do with all the money the US has barrowed from CHina. How can they be in this situation and then put tarrifs and fees on China? I think that would be bad for business. I don't know how we could put stipulations on a country that is in the position they are in. It just wouldn't work and they would probably laugh us next time we ask for money too.

Some will say it's good but others that is not. Opinions to favor will argue that Americans have right to buy cheap products such as the Chinese. Contrary opinions will say all this hurts the production and employment in USA. Must be reciprocal tariffs for countries that trade. The problem is the rebilling of products coming from China. That is, they enter with lower prices than the real and pay almost no taxes. On this way is very difficult to compete.

ya.it is a good idea to put tariff on chinese products. specially because inspite of advice from various nations china manipulates its currency .in that way it can export at comparitively cheaper rate .this gives a blow to u.s home industry. so the tariff should me implemented in a manner that even chinese goods become equivalent to country made products in terms of price.

Placing a tariff on Chinese goods is in effect a tax on the people who import those goods and on the US consumer. While the Chinese exporter would be the first to pay the tariff it would be passed on to the US consumer in the form of increased prices. With the problems already facing the US consumer this is no time to add to there woes. Not a good idea.

I'm afraid you may misunderstand the definition of Most-Favored-Nation treatment status. It is termed Permanent Normal Trade Relations in US federal law. A country that has been accorded MFN status may not be treated less advantageously than any other country with MFN status by the promising country. Briefly speaking, MFN just means fair trade treatment. In fact, tariffs and fees still exist in the trade between China and USA. According to the WTO rules, its members could not increase the tariffs unilaterally. So we'd better face this problem more rationally. You may not know the fact that many so-called Chinese exported goods are manufactured by the enterprises owned by foreign investors rather than Chinese investors, which means the profits from Sino-US trade are shared by many countries including USA.

First and foremost the best idea would be to respond to China sayign they don't want to lend to the US any more by stating that is fine, however since you have gone this way we will need to claim back all buildings technologies and improvements that are in your country due to our funding. Secondly yes there should be tariffs regardless of the whys and whatfors. The US is giving them perks as you say because they don't want to upset them. I say upset them make them cry whatever. They will realize they are only where they are at because of the help of other contries eventually.

china is a big city,with a great number of the products. i think we need each other.