Trump is threatening to entirely cut off our most important allies—or at least were until a year and a half ago—from trading with us if they don't eliminate all tariffs, non-tariff barriers, and subsidies.
This is insane. ft.com/content/ba0aa2…
This is insane. ft.com/content/ba0aa2…
It’s setting an impossibly high standard for the rest of the G7 to reach, just to give Trump an excuse to say he’s the “real” free trader while he puts tariffs on them.
And for what? The EU has an average tariff of … 3 percent on U.S. exports. export.gov/article?id=Eur…
And for what? The EU has an average tariff of … 3 percent on U.S. exports. export.gov/article?id=Eur…
Meanwhile, Trump’s team is objecting to the G7 saying that it supports a “rules-based international order”!!!
This is the system that the U.S. has spent the last 70 years building, because we thought free trade helped support free peoples. nytimes.com/2018/06/08/wor…
This is the system that the U.S. has spent the last 70 years building, because we thought free trade helped support free peoples. nytimes.com/2018/06/08/wor…
And it almost goes without saying that Trump was also opposed to Trudeau’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution in the oceans.
