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Free trade is the ideal but if there are going to be taxes, tariffs are not as damaging as most.

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Beyond that, its really a simple question.

If you were a retailer, suppose you were Gap, Inc and you were opening 2 different stores in 2 different shopping malls: Would you expect to pay more for rent in a upscale luxury mall that does 5x the volume of a lower tier mall in poorer area?

Point being is merchants already implicitly pay more to access higher end markets, thus tariffs don't really break the model that much.

A much larger and thornier question is: Is it really "free trade" if your trading partner uses slave labor to make their goods?

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Agreed, I wrote about that here: #983054

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