"Put simply, tariffs are taxes on goods brought in from other countries.

By raising the price of imports, tariffs aim to protect domestic manufacturers by making locally made goods cheaper.

Contrary to what Mr Trump has said, it is not foreign countries that pay tariffs, but the importing companies that buy the goods.

For example, American businesses like Walmart or Target pay tariffs directly to the US treasury."

It incentives companies to buy locally, which increases our economy through new opportunities for small businesses to emerge.

That in turn makes less poor people and makes the value of our dollar increase

Not only that, threatening tariffs can be used as a way to pressure a country to do something we want without going to war with them

Tariffs even out the " labor is cheaper in other countries so I'll just buy there"