Title text:
"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3290/
It was both better AND cheaper.
I've seen similar tariffs circumnavigated by putting cheap crappy seats in the bed of the Subaru BRAT or selling a Japanese truck as a "Ford Ranger." Or importing parts and assembling them in America rather than just importing the whole truck.
Tariffs are politics, politics is bullshit, therefore tariffs are bullshit.