This is going to put a dent in importing

Jeffblue

this isn't about security. America gets all up on china because they keep their currency artificially low in order to promote trade so people import their products. We started to use quantitative easing in order to devalue our currency with the same hope of boosting our exports. Unfortunately, everyone else will follow suite, so in essence, all we've done is devalue our currency and not boosted our exports. These BS security measures are only to impose more difficulty and restrictions in hopes that we will import less, and export more.