Opinion: China is hacking the tariff system by investing in U.S. firms — while American taxpayers foot the bill

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The U.S. trade deficit isn’t actually falling due to tariffs. It’s still near a record high.

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Jeffry Bartash Jeffry Bartash is a reporter for MarketWatch in Washington.

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Jeffry Bartash Jeffry Bartash is a reporter for MarketWatch in Washington.

Here’s how high tariff rates would have to rise to bring manufacturing back to its glory days. Even Trump would be shocked.

Economists at UBS pointed to analysis done by the center-right American Enterprise Institute, which calculated that…