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The right time for Chinese tariffs was 1980.
Not arguing. But why that year specifically?
Ball had started rolling on Reform and Opening Up by about that time
It's roughly when the US shut down practically all of our manufacturing plants and laid off the vast majority of our manufacturing talent.
We've had some 40 years of mostly not passing down the knowledge of how to manufacture things well.
What manufacturing we still have is pretty amazing, but the demand for cross training - should those jobs return - is going to be way more than the remaining available talent can take on.
Bringing it back in 1980 would have given us a shot to pass on all the skills of the previous generation of skilled tradespeople.
Ironically enough, a great solution to this problem would be to bring in Chinese experts to train American workers. The USD still spends.
All I can do is mass deportation.
I'm approximating, but it's in that general time period when manufacturing was moving to China, and with very little concern for the American worker.