Posted on 04/06/2025 6:58:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In fact, most of Navarro’s across-the-board tariffs don’t seem aimed at any obvious problem. We run trade surpluses with lots of big countries -- Britain, Brazil, Netherlands, Spain, Australia, and Saudi Arabia, yet they all get hit with his 10% minimum tariff. Why? We should be rewarding every country where we have a surplus or near surplus; they are obviously wide open to us.
Second, look at this list of countries that are hardest hit by his tariffs. Most are insignificant traders, like North Macedonia. Why bother with a punitive tariff for them? They aren’t stealing any jobs and are in no condition to buy much from us, anyway.
Trump is a negotiator, Hillary was a totalitarian. Countries are already lining up to negotiate.
I don’t buy anything this Friday guy had to say. Navarro did a masterful job in the first administration. He also went to jail for his efforts. There’s another person who’s also laser focused on American auto revitalization, Donald Trump.
>> drive trains — engines and transmissions — and these are much more likely to be imported
because U.S. factories where closed
Mr. Friday obviously has no knowledge or understanding of how negotiations work.
We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others. The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A. They are already in effect, and a beautiful thing to behold. The Surplus with these Countries has grown during the “Presidency” of Sleepy Joe Biden. We are going to reverse it, and reverse it QUICKLY. Some day people will realize that Tariffs, for the United States of America, are a very beautiful thing!
Lot's of the WH is former Dems, same for lots of the supporters. Trump, Musk, Nav, etc etc
I usually enjoy articles from American Thinker.
This guy, Friday, is a putz, though.
Tariffs are:
- adjustable
- flexible
- manageable
- negotiable
Trump anticipates that.
Navarro makes a misleading defense of his position by saying the real money in autos is in drive trains
Misleading is a common thread of this current Trump passion. Some might even call it lying.
Larry Kudlow was who did the masterful job during the first Trump administration.
Y’all missed the biggest problem;
“It’s also hard to physically make engines here, partly because of environmental regulations for casting steel and aluminum “
The Democrat run EPA is our real problem!
It’s called “the art of the deal.”
You don’t start off with your final offer.
Those may just be for revenue in general. A tariff, but a rather modest one.
President Trump just made something out of nothing (new tariffs), that now almost every country on Earth is beating a path to our door, offering things of significant value to buy their way out of.
I agree, this is a disaster
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