Sinsull, you're living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. It is well established that the US and EU are always desperate to keep "free trade" at bay (the impoverishment of Africa is testament to that). But even to talk about blocking Chinese imports is sheer lunacy. Part of Paul Burke's point is that any admin attempting such a move would be voted out of office forthwith because the result would be a truly colossal rise in your cost of living.

And inspections are utterly out of the question, with 3-4 million containers arriving on the US west coast from China every day. Just be grateful that, so far, no crackpot has stashed a dirty bomb into any of those containers, the overwhelming majority of which are waved through completely unchecked.