Embargoes, tariffs as high as 40%. So much losing for the world's most productive large economy.
When the Soviets embargoed grain from the U.S. over Carter's ideological war, a young L.W. saw a mountain of corn on his front lawn turn to steamy mush. He was homeless a year later.
Doesn't matter if Carter was right on a moral level to boycott Olympics etc. over the Afghanistan invasion. Being "right" and a buck fifty gets you a cup of coffee. When economies are tied together, the damage of boycotts, embargoes, and punitive tariffs is truly akin to war, in the suffering of citizens on both sides.
Doesn't matter if China has been unfairly gaming international markets for generations, or if Canada has had a small advantage in tariffs, if in punishing them you punish yourself.
The way forward is hard work, to prepare, plan, and cultivate. Reacting out of righteousness, fear, and nativism is easy, because it's unilateral. Easy, and counterproductive for the same reason. Every. Single. Time.
Trade wars are easy to win!
At least this time, in the case of cranberries, it's being done in an organized way, distributing the pain more or less equitably. Managed for the common good, in other words. It's practically socialist. Odd, such a cooperative response to a crisis instigated in part by a policy of non-cooperation.
I still wonder what happens if/when we are the target of sanctions or embargoes.