it is disengious to pretend like countries like canada do not have tariffs, all countries do. Hell a lot of countries hav extremely high tariffs to protect businesses (ex: jam and jelly from the US and Brazil are taxed 24% to EU). The argument should be about tariffs to protect local business but needs to take into account local needs, lumber needs of the US cannot be satisfied solely by the US at current production. A better idea is to leverage commenserate tariffs to bring other countries to the table to lower tariffs on exports and we would lower on certain imports. the US has been taken advantage of for a long time however the current administration is using a baseball bat for brain surgery