China promised Trump a better deal for America; it didn't actually deliver : Planet Money : NPR

"We now have a huge body of economic evidence that basically makes the case that tariffs have made the American manufacturing sector less competitive," Bown says. "It's harder for American companies to compete with companies in Europe or Japan or anywhere else in the world that can continue to get those Chinese products at lower prices — so it actually harms the competitiveness of the American manufacturing sector."…

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/02/15/1079761270/china-promised-trump-a-better-deal-for-america-it-didnt-actually-deliver