President Trump is taking historic action to reset America’s trade imbalance with China through strategic tariffs. The Protecting America Initiative (PAI) late last month commissioned a national survey of likely general election voters in order to gauge how voters view the President’s approach to China on trade and the types of efforts they would like policymaker to pursue at the state level to ensure the tariff strategy is not undermined by the retail industry.

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In early May, the Protecting America Initiative sought to gauge public sentiment around President Trump’s tariffs and concerns that our nation’s largest retailers would use them as an excuse to hike prices.

While President Trump has pressed ahead in recent weeks on his effort to correct the damage that has been done by decades of outsourcing our manufacturing to China, one group has stood out as a thorn in his side. The big retail industry has vigorously opposed Trump’s efforts to use tariffs to negotiate a better trade balance with China and have proactively blamed the President for future price increases that consumers could face because of the tariffs.

From July 25th to July 26th, the Tyson Group conducted a survey of 2,000 likely general election voters nationwide. This survey was conducted with online participants and with a margin of error of 2%. Our sample includes a marginally even split of Republicans and Democrats (each party made up 35% of the sample) with independents at around 30%.