President Donald Trump has been using an old tool ignored by recent presidents to target trade abusers like China that impose significant barriers to American products and services—tariffs. We all want free and fair trade, but trade is not free and fair when it is only free and fair on one side.
As The Heritage Foundation has outlined, tariffs “are most effective when paired with a broad array of conservative policies that alleviate economic pain on the American people” and when they are used in negotiations to convince other countries to reduce the obstacles they impose on our exports.
Twelve states have already filed suit against the Trump administration in the Court of International Trade, the federal court created by Congress with authority over all claims “arising out of the customs and international trade law of the United States.” The states allege that…
