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> President Donald Trump appears set to broaden his attack on global economic integration by imposing new multimillion-dollar fees on the Chinese container ships that bring many foreign goods to the United States’ shores.

> By charging Chinese-owned or -built vessels each time they dock at a U.S. port, the administration hopes to discourage ocean carriers from buying more ships from China

> U.S. exporters also would be required to meet targets for shipping their goods on U.S.-flagged vessels, rising from almost nothing to 15 percent of the total in seven years.

In addition to all the tariffs?

I feel like the USA is going to instead be isolated from global trade as countries work overtime to remove trade barriers between each other and source their stuff from Not-America. Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the great depression?

> Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the great depression?

Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the World War II?

https://archive.ph/91MKW
Trump has the uncanny ability to figure out problems and propose not so great solutions for them.

You can't have military only shipbuilding without commercial[], and due to reasons the current us commercial shipbuilding is nonexistent.

So in a way - moving commercial shipbuilding to US shores is great idea and allows the Navy to get more ships for their bucks. But you can be assured that the implementation will be heavy handed, clumsy and will make otherwise sane people do and say stupid stuff.

[]Well you can, but then you have no economy of scale or spare supply chains or labor pool or spreading up R&D costs. The same lesson that the USSR learned with aircraft

Title seems to be wrong.
It is just inconceivably terrible what this bunch of ignorant "make-america-gasp-again" boyscouts does to the country.
The talk is simply flooding the zone with shit. There are too many moving pieces. It's not gonna happen.