Tariffs
...ff will decrease my sales enormously. Small businesses similar to mine in production, will suffer also suffer. This will force us into the world of bankruptcy and unemployment. Other industries, such as the American leather industry and the American mens’ shoe industry will also be at a loss because of the lifted tariff. Repeating the cheapness of labor and materials in China, the leather and materials from China will be in a much greater demand because they are the ones supplying the country with the cheaper shoes. These large industries will suffer and could inevitably file for bankruptcy, just like my family-owned business. To an extreme, the manual workers working for stores similar to my business and the ones working in large industries may lose their jobs because of the decreased income of the business. A situation like this will raise the unemployment rate of the country; one which you, the government, prides itself in keeping at low rates. If the tariff is lifted from any product, not just ones affecting the shoe industry, it will affect the people, businesses and the government and economy of our great nation. I ask you to please reconsider accounting for the good of the citizens and the well-being of the country. Putting money into foreign countries isn’t productive for the United States at all. It may alter our style of living, health of our economy and the good of the people. The lifted tariff will also affect the United States as a whole. Because countries such as China do not have regulated child labor laws (as we do), they are able to produce a sufficient amount of products, such as shoes, at a “dirt cheap” cost. They take advantage of this situ...