[Andaith]

> President Donald Trump appears set to broaden his attack on global economic integration by imposing new multimillion-dollar fees on the Chinese container ships that bring many foreign goods to the United States’ shores.

> By charging Chinese-owned or -built vessels each time they dock at a U.S. port, the administration hopes to discourage ocean carriers from buying more ships from China

> U.S. exporters also would be required to meet targets for shipping their goods on U.S.-flagged vessels, rising from almost nothing to 15 percent of the total in seven years.

In addition to all the tariffs?

I feel like the USA is going to instead be isolated from global trade as countries work overtime to remove trade barriers between each other and source their stuff from Not-America. Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the great depression?

[suraci]

> Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the great depression?

Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the World War II?