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Tariffs are needed for the American worker.
Protecting local industries: Tariffs are imposed on imports in order to protect local industries from collapsing. They discourage foreign industries from importing cheaper goods from abroad hence protecting local industries.
Saving jobs: Tariffs also play an important role in protecting local jobs. By imposing tariffs, cheaper goods from foreign countries are restricted hence promoting local industries which leads to the creation of more jobs.
Fair play: Tariffs play an important role in encouraging fair play between countries. It makes it easier for countries to grow their industries to the level of other countries.
Creation of employment: Tariffs create employment within a country by encouraging local industries to grow and manufacture their own goods.
Strengthening of the local economy: By encouraging the local industries to grow and manufacture local goods and services, has an effect on the growth of the economy.
Reduces the deficit of the economy: Tariffs prevent foreign goods and services from infiltrating the market hence reducing the deficit of the economy since most of the products are produced locally.
Restricts importation of undesired goods: Tariffs increase the prices of goods that come in from other countries. This will discourage other people from importing goods that are undesired such as sex toys and drugs into the country.
Prevent dumping: Tariffs protect the country from being a recipient of goods that have been rejected in other countries. This is known as dumping.
Additional revenue to the government: Tariffs increase the tax charged on goods and services being imported into the country and this increases the revenue collected by the government.
Expansion of the economy: Tariffs also play an important role in the growth and expansion of the economy through such things as the creation of employment, reduction of the deficit, and increase in revenue for the government.

Comment Submitted by Anonymous:

I would like to comment on the Customs Broker Licensing Exam. Are there plans in place to add a highlighter tool and strikethrough tool to the online exam interface? I believe they are both extremely valuable tools in the test takers toolkit that unfortunately are not able to be used on the exam currently. I think this is putting a lot of people with different learning strategies at a significant disadvantage. This was not an issue for anyone who got to take the exam prior to it being issued only on the computer vs on paper, and I think this could be filtering out people with specific personality traits that would make them a great customs broker. I also think another good feature to add to the exam interface is an easy way for examinees to skip through different sections of the test (example: if you want to start with the practical application section and then move to the classification section.... so on and so forth)

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