The bosses have shifted many of these jobs to low-wage areas, particularly in Latin America and Asia. The capitalists claim the principal barriers to production are high tariffs, import duties, taxes. Taxes and tariffs may slow down or accelerate the circulation of capital. But production for profit under capitalism outstrips consumption. And so it is this profit- mad economic system itself that leads to overproduction and war.
Capitalism is paved with competition for inroads into new markets.
That is what leads to trade wars. The expansion of U.S. capitalism in any direction of the compass will not benefit working people in this country. It will only deepen the suffering of the most oppressed here and around the world. U.S. workers living in the belly of the beast need to take the lead in demonstrating solidarity with workers everywhere against an economic system that cannot meet the needs of the laboring majority and the oppressed. The ILWU resolution supported the Quebec protests against the FTAA and encouraged members to take part.