Trump and his top trade officials are betting that China and other countries will decide that they cannot afford not to do business with the United States, and will absorb new tariffs or change their behavior in response to them. One possible outcome that Trump has sought is for more foreign firms to open plants in the United States, just as Japanese automakers did starting in the 1980s as a way to defuse American political pressures.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2018 20:48 UTC