The key point is that the Navarro/Trump view, aside from its fixation on trade balances, also seems to imagine that the world still looks the way it did in the 1960s, when trade was overwhelmingly in final goods like wheat and cars. In that world, putting a tariff on imported cars would cause consumers to switch to domestic cars, adding auto industry jobs, end of story (except for the foreign retaliation.) The New York Times

Clark said that in the past, consumers have picked a domestic car over a Japanese one only if the domestic car is $4,000 to $6,000 cheaper, even though there are no significant differences in quality. http://www.nbcnews.com

In South Korea, the car market has long been dominated by domestic manufacturers like Hyundai or Kia. But, customers are increasingly turning to foreign imports over domestic cars. Sales of imported vehicles, mostly European luxury models, have risen by 25% over the past year. https://www.bbc.com

The Brennan's wine cellar covers two floors in what was once the carriage house of the 1795 French Quarter mansion-turned-restaurant. Domestic wines are stacked to the ceiling on the first floor, European vintages on the second floor. The New York Times

In China, covert protectionism helped domestic manufacturers achieve formidable market share at home and abroad, but excessive lending by state-owned banks to state-owned enterprises and local government caused investment and property bubbles. The Economist

When South Korean celebrities, eager to prove their patriotism, swapped their German BMW cars for home-grown Hyundais on television, during the Asian financial crisis in 1998, they rallied the whole nation behind domestic products. The Economist

He also championed the use of domestic steel, promising to pursue an infrastructure plan under which “new ships, bridges, tunnels and airplanes will be constructed with American hands, American steel and, yes, American tools.” The New York Times