Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Americans Could Learn to Live Without ‘Made in China’

The impact on inflation will be minimal, and restricting imports could even boost U.S. manufacturing.

September 18, 2018 at 9:33 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on China is essentially a tax on Americans, who will pay more for some goods. It’s not a huge cost increase, though, and it might help bring back some of the jobs eliminated by Chinese imports.

As a consumer, living without “Made in China” appears to be daunting.