"Trump aims to close the trade deficit by imposing tariffs, thereby impeding imports and restoring trade balance (or inducing other countries to end their rip-offs of America). Yet Trump’s tariffs will not close the trade deficit but will instead impoverish Americans and harm the rest of the world."

https://www.unz.com/article/trumps-absurd-trade-policies-will-impoverish-americans-and-harm-the-world/