As if the steep tariffs are going to come? Probably not! The problem is WALMART. Everyone wants to save 10 cents on a bar of soap, yet they complain about the price of gas. Go figure! And that $2 Chinese probably buys them more than the $30.00/hr here. And they are not afraid to work, and they will work 12-14 hours a day, and not worry about their stock market shares every 5 minutes, and party.

Unions haven't helped any either.

So, everything will spiral in cost here (Americas), because we want to buy really cheap (Chinese goods) and the price of gasoline will rise because all the Chinese like cars too, causing everything we buy to increase, only because we like shopping at WALMART.

Nobody is going to offend the Chinese government. They are too powerful. It costs too much money to keep the environment clean, which will drive up the products we import from the far east. Also, the Americas, especially US, has too much invested in China to peeve them off. So dream on regarding tariffs, worry about the $4.00/gallon gasoline that has been here in Canada, and soon to come to a HESS station near you, the lead in kids toys does not help matters, or the poison in dog food, and let everybody shop at WALMART.

That is where the problem lies.