The sticky part is we are also one of the largest producers in the world, and there is every reason to think that our producers will also take hits from our chaotic trade "policy."

(This is in addition to the fact that imposing big, likely-illegal, capricious taxes on Americans is a de facto reduction in the freedom of all American citizens. We are being deprived of our freedom to purchase what we want from wherever we want, and now it extends far beyond cheap Chinese EVs and into practically everything. People should understand the tariffs first as an assault on our personal liberties and only second as a business matter.)