Comment by LatteLazy

I prefer the alternative explain: this is just trump bringing in a national sales tax without having to go through the senate or eat the unpopularity.

There seems to be no actual plan to actually bring back manufacturing (this would require different tariffs, loans, tax accounting rules, etc). And there seems to be no targeting of china (everywhere is being tariffed, allies and enemies, strategic suppliers and places with no trade with the USA etc)