Great piece by Andrew Chang on CBC yesterday trying to make sense of Trump's constant flip-flopping on tariffs and how it's starting to appear more and more likely that he's using the constant threat of tariffs and the uncertainty and chaos it causes to basically force American companies to move all of their manufacturing back to the U.S. And that he'll just keep threatening and then pulling back over and over again until companies eventually give in and change their entire business strategies.
Trump seems to think that this stuff can just happen overnight (or in 30 days), because he's a complete dumbass. When in reality it would take years to make those kinds of changes. They had a guy on from the American side who works in the auto sector (from Michigan I think), and he mentioned that just to build new plants would take at least 4-5 years and billions of dollars, and that it would take possibly a decade to completely change the supply lines.
For the U.S. oil sector, it would probably take even longer to make those kinds of changes.
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