Now that I think about it, creating confusion and uncertainty is actually a pretty effective move if you want to play protectionism.
Any "known" tariff would just be paid as far as still profitable.
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If you want companies to invest in your country, the tariff has to make doing so make financial sense, and for the long term.
A lot of these tariffs are going on things that would require a whole factory to be built in the USA which doesn’t currently exist at all, and has no supporting infrastructure or workforce.
Companies can’t just decide right now, “oh shit there’s a tariff. Better but it in the USA right away!”