why hasn't Obama settled the free trade and deficit by installing a tariff.?

We need regular import duties and taxes back.

Very simplistic question for a complex subject but here's an attempt.

America has a deficit because they import more than they export. This is because they don't make goods cheap enough or of sufficiently high quality for the price. People buy these goods because they are of good value, and cannot find products of similar value that are made in America.

Of course, many politicians say that the Chinese are dumping their goods in America. That may be somewhat true. However it is equally true that the US pays subsidies equal to about $20B to their farmers. Some of these farm products are then dumped in other countries, because the subsidies allow them to be competitive. So everyone is playing this game - including the US. Unfortunately America is not having much luck with dumping in China - hence the deficit.

Tarifs could be used but other countries would then impose their own traiffs and that would result in no goods being bought or sold between countries.

No that's a really bad idea. The economies in the world are so interconnected that putting up a tariff would hurt us more than help us. Because then other countries will put up tariffs to retaliate then we will just have a tariff war. As much as other countries rely on our economy, we also rely on theirs. We also export products to other countries as well, and they could easily increase tariff rates.

Protectionist tariffs only end with other nations adding tariffs as well. It's a cyclical solution.

Pencil costs $1 here, $.5 there(cheaper to manufacture), so we add a $.5(+) tariff. So now both are $1. Now they add a tariff to our pencils they import so they are $1.5 and theirs are $.5 there and we end up losing international business, just as they lose business here. No point in trading.

Considered isolationist.

The tariff should be on US companies that have moved their manufacturing base abroad. Otherwise it won't matter, jobs will continue to leave, forcing small businesses to close & the economy to get worse.

We need to cut taxes to our businesses and make them more competitive, so that your American made products are cheaper. You just want to raise prices and create inflation with your method. You act like purchases are mandatory. That only happens in Obama care and then the coward would not even let you cross state lines.

Because tariffs don't work (and have never worked).

They will only work if the US becomes a shut in and closes all its borders.

Honey, look up Smoot-Hawley and read about its devastating impact, including creating the Great Depression.

because he is owned by jews.