You forgot the part where most countries came begging for a deal. Except for our enemies like China and Canada. Even "Europe" wants a deal. That will even the playing field in most instances and undo some of the disaster unleashed by Bill Clinton that wiped manufacturing jobs off the map. U-S-A, U-S-A.
The "begging for deals is a made up lie by Donald Trump. They aren't going to Trump begging for deals. They are going to other countries to make deals, including China.
Why make a deal with Trump who routinely changes his mind and breaks the deal?
Question: Name the countries that came begging for deals?
Name your sources.And quoting Ron Vara is not a valid source.
Peter Navarro came up with his imaginary friend "Ron Vara" (rearrange the letters to "Navarro" to make "Ron Vara". And "Ron Vara" first appeared in Peter Navarro's book in 2001 so I assume the inspiration for this is "Harry Potter and the Chambers of Secret." But what comes to mind is debates between Peter and Ron, like those between Gollum Smeagol where Peter urges to be nice to Americans while Ron insists that they must be made to suffer.
All that happened is that none of the other countries caved and said "We won't put any tariff on the U. S. but could you please remove or at least reduce the tariff you charge." Instead they said, no deal, we are coming with counter tariffs if you dont tback off, and Trump, as is his nature, backed off. End of story.