Trump's Zero-Tariff Solution (tear down these walls)

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Townhall
Stephen Moore
July 10, 2018

President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariff policies have now triggered retaliatory tariffs from other nations, including Canada, the EU and China.

Last week President Trump imposed new tariffs on more than $30 billion of Chinese electronic equipment and other consumer goods. Our trading partners are now threatening to hit our domestic industries, including wheat, soybeans, pork, bourbon, blue jeans -- and even Maine lobsters. The financial markets are jittery, to say the least.

Even worse, China's tit-for-tat tariffs are now intentionally designed to antagonize Trump voters in Midwestern and Southern states. They are using tariffs as a political weapon. It's funny that the left doesn't seem to protest this blatant and dangerous foreign meddling in U.S. elections. They even seem to applaud this election interference by a hostile foreign power because Trump is the target.

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[jmyrlefuller]

They even seem to applaud this election interference by a hostile foreign power because Trump is the target.

...all while screaming bloody murder that "ГНЗ ЯЦSSIДИS!" somehow stole the 2016 presidential election. How ironic.

[Bigun]

He should go back to an offer he put on the table at the recent G-7 meetings in Quebec with the Europeans, Japan and Canada: zero tariffs. Trump challenged the other leaders by proposing: "We should at least consider no tariffs, no barriers -- scrapping all of it." It speaks volumes about the trade debate that none of the foreign leaders, except perhaps Germany's Angela Merkel, had any interest. If the offer were made to China, the mercantilist leaders would be thrown off their high horse never to recover. These nations are more interested in bashing Trump as a trade warrior while retaining their own indefensible protectionist trade barriers.

  Steven Moore