If tariffs don't work, why do so many nations still use them?

This enables the existence of local businesses doing local manufacturing, providing jobs, money, and meaning to local residents.

They wouldn’t be able to compete with foreign imports — neither in price, nor in quality — and would simply go bankrupt.

Let’s say a country sees it has an opportunity to become a clothing manufacturer. If there were no tariffs, each aspiring clothes manufacturing company would have to compete with every other clothes manufacturer in the world — many of which have already a large global market share, experienced workforce, better contacts, state-of-the-art machinery, etc.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

Sure, clothes are more expensive in such a country than they would be in a free-market situation, but then again, there is a future for the people in that country.

There has been plenty of criticism aimed at Western proponents of global free markets. These countries developed their own manufacturing capabilities while protected by tariffs, and when third-world countries try to do the same, they are lectured about free trade benefitting everyone.

Because it benefits a developing industry in a country.

Is there any evidence to support the existence of people who have experienced "gangstalking"? Or is it a psychological phenomenon?

But if the country now puts tariffs to foreign clothes imports, this evens out the playing field, and enables local aspiring clothes manufacturers to gain experience, machinery, connections, etc. before having to compete with global competitors on a level playing field.