14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back

Trump's Trade Hostility Pushes Countries Towards China

For tariffs and undermining America’s alliances, Trump and right-wing media’s pitch to their followers is nationalistic. With promises to reverse globalization and restore a mythologized past, they sell a vision of booming domestic manufacturing and repatriated jobs prompting a reflowering of masculinity, calling it “America First.” But that’s just a marketing slogan. The impact of Trump’s hostility to the world isn’t deglobalization; it’s de-Am…

14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back

On April 2, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10 percent to 49 percent. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again.” These tariffs will not work. In fact, they may even do the opposite, fail to bring manufacturing back, and make America poorer in the process. This article gives the 14 reasons why this is the case, h…

Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back

Putting Americans back to work in factories isn't just hard. It's impossible.

Can Trump’s Tariffs Restore US Manufacturing? | by Keun Lee - Project Syndicate

Donald Trump’s administration wants to make the US a manufacturing powerhouse. But his “reciprocal” tariffs will not only fail to achieve this goal; they will alienate America’s trading partners, destroy its international credibility, and undermine global stability.

Let's say that the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on most of the world work as he promises his voters. It's quite hard to imagine, given the bizarre way Trump and his people defend the tariffs and then hastily roll them back or suspend them, but let's say that. A number of major...

Can manufacturing clock be turned back?

The chaos of Donald Trump’s intentional trade war aside, the central question is whether the objective the president is trying to achieve is even obtainable.