alt Hacker News> I hope that the association makes protectionism politically taboo for decades to come.
I thought it already was, before Trump. I still can't believe they ended de minimus and tariffed everything.
> I hope that the association makes protectionism politically taboo for decades to come.
I thought it already was, before Trump. I still can't believe they ended de minimus and tariffed everything.
> I thought it already was, before Trump.
Not in the US, at least. Every administration since at least Bush jr slapped tariffs on a few things here and there, and mostly kept the previous admin's ad hoc tariffs in place.
In more practical places, like Singapore where I live, you'd be right: tariffs are by and large unthinkable.